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The Sugihara Story
I was five years old. Back then, I did not fully understand what my father had done, or why it was so important.
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I was five years old. Back then, I did not fully understand what my father had done, or why it was so important.
David McCullough quotes Miriam Rothschild who quotes Karl Jordan who may be the epitome of curiosity. “I shall know it all in the next world.”
Kneeling has never been associated with disrespect. You wouldn’t kneel before a man you couldn’t respect unless you were forced to! If you disrespect someone, you turn your back, or walk off to do something else, or keep talking to another person, or tell him exactly what you think!
A college graduate tells me that what she remembers from a math class for non-majors (that is, math for students whose talents
We stayed home for the historic eclipse and watched totality five times on the NASA live-streaming site for which we didn’t need
I thought at first that Nate’s best friend was Russel, but when I realized Russ isn’t dependable enough to be a true friend, I found Hiram…
This could be the first time in my life that I’ve looked forward to talking in public!
Every story has a place, a location.m whether it’s in an atlas or the author’s head.
Colin collects facts the way you might collect stamps or baseball cards, and because he’s curious about the ways other people behave, he finds out who shot off the gun at a birthday party.
An author’s first problem is where to begin the story. An author’s last problem is to find out if the story begins
Derek cut into his second pork chop. This summer of stacking hay bales and shuffling milking machines from cow to cow on
Henry wants a bicycle. I have heard the answer from Henry’s parents myself, and as a parent I’ve had to tell our children the same: “I wish you [had one] too…but with prices and taxes going up all the time, I’m afraid we can’t give you one this year.”