On December 12, 1899, a 25-year-old British cavalry officer made a daring nighttime escape from an enemy prison, but the frightful prospect of imminent recapture soon overwhelmed him.
He later confessed, “I realized with awful force that no exercise of my own feeble wit and strength could save me from my enemies, and that without the [...]
It hardly seems as seems as if our 37 years together have come and gone so quickly, but sifting through old pictures this past week convinces me that they have. My hair was once black, but what few locks that age and stress have permitted to remain are now decidedly gray.
We were young and in [...]
We recently found a folded paper in an old college textbook. It was a handwritten list, apparently instructions a teacher had once given to her class. The frustrations it expressed were revealing, but how much can a teacher do?
Teachers are trained to impart knowledge, and many excel. Nevertheless, their efforts are blunted when parents send [...]
The mantle of manhood is not won by years,
Nor triumphs o'er others, nor even by tears,
Nor shrewdness, nor sharpness, nor "manly" pursuits
Of glittering trophies or glorious fruits.
But manhood emerges in words and in deeds:
In turning from evil when no one can see,
In doing what's right though he must stand alone,
In humbling himself by saying "I'm [...]
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