Unexpected cold snaps had destroyed the buds on a man’s peach tree for two years in a row. This spring, he was ready. He replanted the sapling in a large box, mounted…
Parents
A woman opened the front door of her home to find a young minister from the neighborhood who said, “I’m collecting donations for the new children’s home we’re building. I hope you’ll…
One night a wife found her husband standing over their baby’s crib. Silently she watched him. As he stood looking down at the sleeping infant, she saw on his face a mixture…
A couple was selling their house. The mother stressed emphatically that her sons must make their beds each morning. She left for work before they left for school, and she wanted to…
A young man volunteered to babysit one night so his mom could have an evening out. At bedtime he sent the youngsters upstairs to bed and settled down to watch football. One…
A four-year-old boy was eating an apple in the back seat of the car, when he asked, “Daddy, why is my apple turning brown?” “Because,” his dad explained, “after you ate the…
“How on earth can you see the TV sitting so far back?” “Yeah, I used to skip school a lot, too” “Just leave all the lights on… it makes the house look…
I was with a friend in a cafe when a noisy car alarm interrupted our conversation. “What good are car alarms when no one pays any attention to them?” I wondered aloud….
As the family gathered for a big dinner together, the youngest son announced that he had just joined the army. There were gasps around the table, then some laughter, as his older…
A pregnant woman gets in a car accident and falls into a deep coma. Asleep for nearly six months, when she wakes up she discovers that she is no longer pregnant and…
A professor of psychology at a British university included a lecture on crowd psychology in his annual course. To illustrate mass hysteria, he regularly showed TV news footage of teenage crowds greeting…
Ben came from a large family. He had five sisters and three brothers. One day he was looking through the family photo album with his mother when he noticed, in page after…