In July 2014, my stepson Ryan was killed in an accident. For three days he was a missing person before we found him and learned what had happened to him. Grief...

When I was a student at Rangoon University in the 1960s, I took part in a student demonstration. For my involvement, the military government expelled me from the university, arrested me...

My mother adjusted to her blindness so well that her sight-loss support group asked her to visit new members who needed help. Eventually, we wrote a pamphlet with information for those...

About 10 years ago, there was a huge playground just beyond the walls of my house. The chattering of adults and the giggling of children always gave life to it. Now...

One Sunday I gave the children’s message during my church’s worship service. Since I enjoy playing the five-string banjo, I used it as an example of the church, the body of...

My husband and I had a good life. We had both experienced previous turbulent marriages, and we thought we would have a happy future together. But after four years, he began...

The student dining hall has shelves full of fruit. Usually I grab a few apples on my way to my next class. But I find it difficult to choose the best...

I had been out of work for months, and expenses were mounting. When another phone call came from someone requesting a donation to his cause, I told him I was not...

“No more!” I cried to my father after yet another failed medical treatment. I no longer wanted to be disappointed by medical treatments that made me feel worse and professionals who...

In the days long before GPS, mariners would use a sextant — an instrument which uses the stars and the horizon as the basis for navigation. They would use the sextant...