Memoirs of a Navy Dad

/

…is challenging. Anyone who has raised children knows it isn’t all peaches ‘n cream. There are good times, and times best forgotten. However, all of those times are priceless.

My wife, Jean and I were fortunate to have four healthy children: two girls and two boys. We often thought it a Mendelian model: two girls, two boys; to blondes, two brunettes; two with blue eyes, two with…

By Robert L. Scarry

Read More

The Avatar and The Dragon

/

… people hoped Wurm was still asleep but they could feel the mountain tremble from his movements.

Do dragons dream?

The people feared his waking and interrupting over a thousand years of peace…

They all knew Wurm was dangerous—legends told of his fire-breathing, not to mention what…

By Alexander Zoltai

Read More

Nobody Ever Saw a Ballplayer Like This One

/

…the mound in the eighth inning at Yankee Stadium. For a long moment he studied the scoreboard in center field and thought back on his life – just six outs away from pitching a no-hitter – a dream he had imagined since childhood. He was the most improbable of boyhood…

By Pete Black

Read More

St. Joseph's Staircase

/

In 1878, a supernatural carpenter builds a miraculous staircase in the Loretto Chapel in Sante Fe. More than 150 years later the staircase still baffles visitors.

————

…nuns stared sadly at the choir loft, located 22 feet above the chapel floor. They were distraught. Desperate. After five long years, their chapel was complete except…

By Pete Black

Read More

Waking You Up

/

Sometimes we are so caught up in the humdrum of life that we become entranced, then fail to see the beauty of life and love around us.

————

…aroma of coffee perking, as the alarm buzzed loudly. Elsa knew it was time to get out of bed, but she laid there thinking, with her eyes closed, before turning the alarm off. She loved the bookstore downstairs…

By Nancy Lou Henderson

Read More