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If You Had One Day With Someone Who’s Gone…
Her world shattered in a telephone call. My mother was 15 years old. “Your father is dead,” her aunt told her. Dead? How could he be dead? Hadn’t she seen him the night before, when she kissed him goodnight? Hadn’t he given her two new...
What I Learned From Tony Bennett
A woman steps up to the table at an Italian restaurant. She is elderly, but as she smiles at Tony Bennett, her eyes widen like a teenager’s. “I heard you perform once in a place near here after the war. Oh, you sang wonderfully. I was with a fella that...
The painful secret that millions hide:”I Cannot Read”
To understand the anguish of the man, see him as a boy. See his drunken father beat him. See his father tell him he’s useless, no good. See his father terrorize the boy’s mother nightly, whacking her so hard he bloodies her forehead. See the boy unable to sleep, hiding under a blanket, crying, worrying.
Now put that boy in grade school in Montreal in the 1950s. He can’t learn. He is too anxious. Too exhausted. He gets his sister or friends to do his homework. He reaches the eighth grade-barely-then drops out.
He can’t read. He can’t write.

What Makes a Place a Home
They lost everything they owned, but in the end each of them truly learned…what makes a place a home. There was no calm before this storm. Earl Walker raced through the apartment complex he managed. He banged on doors. “We’ve got...
Make A Holiday For Someone
’Tis the season, says this best-selling author, but this year don’t just celebrate, Make A Holiday For Someone. You bring Popsicle sticks. You bring glitter. You bring boxes of donuts and inexpensive pizza. You bring stuffed animals, donated...