Just Love

By Grace Elizabeth on October 30, 2016 / 0 views

My story is a story of receiving unconditional love from my nursing students. With so much going against immigrants, I wanted to share this story that blessed an immigrant like me. I teach nursing here in the US. I am from India, I just started working as nursing faculty in a community college in Indiana in July 2016. As I started teaching, I was fearful that my...

Heaven Sent

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 27, 2016 / 0 views

It was a chilly Autumn morning a few years ago. I was driving along the mountain roads slower than usual trying to take in all the Fall colors. It seemed like all of the leaves had changed overnight. It looked as if God in His good-humor and love had painted the mountains themselves while we slept. The yellow and gold leaves were sparkling in the sunshine. The red and orange ones were fluttering brilliantly in...

Love Is Blind: The Magic Of Tabby

By David G. Truitt on October 26, 2016 / 0 views

In October of 2003 I had just started my work in the at my local animal shelter’s Adoption Department. It seems like such a long time ago. In the 13 years that have passed, more than 50,000 animals have passed the doors of the shelter. Most of them, I do not remember. They have become a blur. The images of the various dogs, cats, rabbits, etc. merge and have become nearly indistinguishable from one...

The Mysterious Ways Of Fate!

By Anjali Mohapatra on October 26, 2016 / 2,344 views

Once a ferry was carrying passengers to cross a deep river. Passengers were in a hurry to reach their destination. The boat man became a little greedy looking at a good number of people. He was very happy, thinking that he would have enough money that day! So, he didn't refuse anyone to have a seat. All passengers were so impatient that they had no time to see the capacity of the boat but rode on it. The...

Too Cool To Be A Fool

By Tracy Brooks on October 25, 2016 / 0 views

By Tracy Brooks on October 25, 2016 / 0 views

I'm a k-9 expert and know for a fact Pit Bull type breeds can be wonderful dogs in the right hands. This is Riddick, an American Staffordshire Terrier. This time last year he was in a horrible car accident, he was in the back seat and thrown into the dash so hard it dislocated his hip, he had to have surgery to remove the head of his femur. Riddick has recovered wonderfully and has...

It's Worth Every Minute

By Morton Family on October 24, 2016 / 1,788 views

By Morton Family on October 24, 2016 / 1,788 views

Tessa came to me as a 13 year old. Tessa is 17 and now part of my forever family. Audrey is 2 and I brought her home from the hospital at 5 weeks old. She is our little corner brighter. I was 50 years old and really didn't think about adopting, just fostering, but as fate would have it I was able to adopt my first placement, then my second, all with their own history and personalities. Im a single retired...

Keep Fighting

By Daniell Keopke on October 24, 2016 / 0 views

Don’t allow the negative things in your life to discount the positive ones. Don’t let a bad day or month or year make you feel like you have a bad life. Instead of focusing on everything that’s going wrong, start holding onto all of the things that are going right. You may be struggling, but there is still so much to keep fighting for — there is still so much more to life than this...

After 6 Years Of Self Defeating Behavior...

By Nye Guy on October 22, 2016 / 0 views

This whole year, I've been doing things in both my personal and professional life that have pushed me far out of my comfort zone. Most of the time, things didn't go the way I hoped, but failure has taught me a lot about myself. I learned that I'm sometimes naive, and that some people will take advantage of that. I've learned to recognize the signs in those people. I learned that if I stand...

I No Longer Have Patience

By Jose Micard Teixeira on October 20, 2016 / 1,951 views

I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what degrades me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me. I no longer spend a single minute on...

The Calculus Of Love

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 19, 2016 / 0 views

When I was a little boy my Mom, Dad, Nana, and brothers would often play cards at the kitchen table in the afternoons. It was a fun way to pass the time and after watching countless games of Rummy, Black Jack, Knock, and Poker I started to join in. I was only five but I learned quick and was soon winning as often as I lost. When I started school I found out something too: all of those hours playing cards had...

An Immigrant's Story

By Pawel Chmielewski on October 19, 2016 / 0 views

When coming to this Country 23 years ago, I imagined it being full of great opportunities to shape my future and my financial desires. The goal was very simple: manage my own business, obtain financial freedom, and help my family and others at the same time. I moved to the small town of Webster, MA where I worked as a machine operator in a local textile factory. At that time, I learned that if I...

Wedding Wonder!

By Libby on October 17, 2016 / 0 views

I was meeting up with one of my bridesmaids the other day to have a dress fitting, hoping upon hope that all would go smoothly. I had already had one bridesmaid say that their dress didn't fit and I know that she had a lot of experience with ordering online so I was very wary... The moment of truth came and the dress didn't fit. It was very perplexing, we were very careful with the sizing chart and...

Act Of Kindness And Love

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 13, 2016 / 0 views

When I decided to major in English in college I thought it would be fun because I loved to read so much. It turned out to be a lot more difficult, though, than I thought it would be. The differences in the language over hundreds of years made many passages hard to comprehend. Trying to understand Shakespeare gave me headaches and Chaucer was even worse. Reading Byron, Keats, Shelly, Emerson, and Thoreau was...

Night Changes

By Grace on October 11, 2016 / 0 views

As a middle schooler, I was forced to go to a varsity football game as my brother plays on the team. A friend of mine was going so I thought I might as well go. As a girl who looks fairly good in other people's eyes (and horrible in my own), i was being crudely "complimented" by boys as i walked by them. My friend was doing nothing to stand up to them and I felt upset at the words they were using...

Eat Dessert First

By Joseph J. Mazzella on October 10, 2016 / 0 views

My wonderful daughter made me a red velvet birthday cake this year using her own special combination of creativity and love. It was huge and I cut myself the biggest piece. With the first bite I closed my eyes and smiled. It was so moist and sweet. The butter cream icing on top was delightfully thick. It had countless calories and it was so delicious without being necessarily nutritious. I didn’t mind,...

The Audition

By Ryan Schexnayder on October 10, 2016 / 1,962 views

Remember that promising actor from not so long ago? You would regularly sit in the theater and watch his plays unfold. He wasn't bad, but over the years his work had become very sloppy. His performances were now unpredictable. As attendance numbers dwindled, what was once a potentially good play was becoming a waste of your time and money. A movie ticket to be thrown away halfway in. Eventually, the entire...

The Message In Your Story

By Alfred Ijeh on October 10, 2016 / 1,466 views

Everyone has a history or a beginning, but the message in it makes you a different person. Everyone has a story about how life wasn't fair. When it all seems dark,when opportunity seems faraway, when our status could only point to flaws and Pity...when no impact is made...my message is that, no one will care to tell a tale about you if your story has no message of a zero to hero, a grass to grace, a...