History Age

I walked in with a pile of clean laundry and then spotted it—Lego scattered all over the floor, mostly in pieces, but some bits managed to stay together. My heart…

Be careful who you trust; salt and sugar look the same Love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. When you want something, all the Universe conspires in helping…

I just brought him home. As he stepped out of the shelter, he clutched a ragged little toy — the only thing he had left in this world to hold…

Last year, my son got suspended from school. Three boys surrounded him and started bullying him. He stayed calm and tried to walk away, but one of them blocked his…

This is a photo of my father. It looks like a perfectly normal photo of a 91-year-old man. So, what’s “heart-pinching” about it? I’d arrived the day before to visit…

In 1940, dad left the family farm to be the first person in his family to go to college. Twice each year, he hitchhiked 164 miles to get home. At…

This old technique has faded away in time, since we have respirators and other machines. *In case the health system collapses and you cannot go to the hospital*, keep this…

In Vietnam, there is a temple for the Lady Horse (Bà Chúa Ngựa). It begins with the story that in the past in this village, there was a very perverted…

As the war winded down the US army began to near Dachau- the infamous and massive concentration camp in Southern Germany where 41,000 people met their end. The Germans didn’t…

This woman below was a Jewish civilian who lived in Lviv. She was a mother, a sister, a daughter, a wife- a person. She was a human being. She was…