Autumn has come again. As the leaves change and the weather cools, the evenings increasingly lend themselves to relaxing nights with family, sipping hot apple cider and enjoying the warmth of each other’s company. Thanksgiving is just around the corner;...
You try your best to teach your child to be a good student, an empathetic sibling, and a kind classmate – and you think that you’ve been fairly successful so far. So you’re understandably upset when you receive a call from the principal midway...
A nurse stands outside her car after a long shift at the hospital, exhausted and hungry. It’s nearly seven in the evening, and she just knows that her two pre-teens won’t have left the meat out to thaw. She fidgets with her keys, thinking; she could either...
The room is all but silent; captivated by the speaker at the raised stage at its head. He takes a moment to pause, allowing the audience to take in the poignancy of his last statement, and as he draws breath for his next words, listeners wait with bated breath to hear...