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While serving in the president’s cabinet as United States Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich kept a hectic and pressure-filled schedule at the heart of...
In 1941, Viktor Frankl was a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, Austria. The threat of Nazi concentration camps was increasing, but Viktor...
Not long ago, a family decided to spend a hot summer afternoon floating down a river on inner tubes. A river guide gave them...
Two busy parents of a large family recently discovered the difference one caring person can make in the life of a child. It’s a...
Over a hundred years ago, Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote The Secret Garden, an enchanting novel about a young girl, Mary, who is orphaned during...
A masterpiece is a work that demonstrates extraordinary talent, artistic skill, or workmanship—a supreme intellectual or artistic achievement. Historically, a masterpiece represented an artist’s...
It has been said that while pain and heartache are inevitable, misery is optional. In other words, even amid the difficulties and adversities of...
At the funeral service of his father, a middle-aged man stood to express his feelings. “Father provided well for our family,” he said. “He...
Isaac Newton’s first law of motion states that an object in motion tends to stay in motion; and likewise, an object at rest tends...
Has anyone ever given you a gift and said, “This reminded me of you”? Did it make you stop and wonder what traits or...
We live in an age of rapid change, when longevity and consistency are rare. And so it seems appropriate, once or twice in a...
In May 1860, four men were vying to be their party’s nominee for president of the United States at the Republican convention. Delegates were...
From time to time, moments arise in our lives that require us to stretch farther than we ever have before, to rise to the...
We live in an age of disposable goods. It seems that so many of our material things are made to be enjoyed for a...
Sometimes relationships flounder because we don’t convey enough genuine love—or perhaps we don’t convey it in quite the right ways. In our zeal to...
Most of us would agree with the lyrics of the well-known song, “When you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you.”1 But did you...
Anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, and other commemorations are an important part of life. They give us a chance to mark our progress, celebrate for a...
With great excitement, a woman nearly 90 years old smiles at her grandson as he installs a new computer in her home. “Now I...
Popular culture and media sometimes portray fathers as either unnecessary or incompetent, and yes, there are bad fathers who are unworthy of the name....
A few years ago, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania studied the lives of National Spelling Bee finalists. She wanted to find...
The Lesson of the Spoon Delivered By: Lloyd D. Newell Sometimes we can learn great life lessons from the simple things around us....
Pause and Remember Delivered By: Lloyd D. Newell There are few things more soul-stirring than to see veterans salute the flag they have honored...
Delivered By: Lloyd D. NewellMost marriages start out like a glowing fire, full of warmth and light. But anyone who has been married for...
There are mothers all over the world. No matter the language, culture or continent, what a difference a mother makes. She is the purveyor...
Max Ehrmann loved to write. And so, after practicing law for a few years and bouncing between the meatpacking and manufacturing industries, he set...
A wise man who has experienced much in life recalled how, as a boy, he and his friends used to carve toy boats out...
In this remarkable age, everything seems to be moving faster and faster. The Internet provides almost instantaneous information; communication crosses oceans and continents in...
Music has been called the timeless and universal language—a language of peace, of love, of hope. No matter where we live, regardless of our...
For many years, a husband and wife had been gathering branches that fell from the trees on their heavily wooded lot. One by one...
One cold day, toward the end of a long, snowy winter, a family noticed serious damage to the beautiful ivy that grew on the...