"In the nineteen-sixties, my sleepaway camp was delightfully under-supervised. Then a camper went missing..." By David Owen In 1967, during the summer of “Sgt. Pepper,” I spent a month at a camp near Florissant, Colorado. When I arrived, from … [Read more...]

A woman was driving her car when she heard a loud noise from under the vehicle. She quickly pulled into the closest car dealership for help. The service man told her the car wasn't safe to drive and offered to call her a tow truck. When the tow … [Read more...]

Daniel was praying the evening prayers at his synagogue in Israel shortly before the Sabbath was to begin that Friday evening. On his way out the door, he noticed a young man, possibly a teenager, eighteen or nineteen years old. Someone he had never … [Read more...]

VALUE OF YOU A father said to his daughter, “You have graduated with honors. Here is a car I bought many years ago. It is pretty old now. But before I give it to you, take it to the used car lot downtown and tell them I want to sell it and see how … [Read more...]

Several years ago, a friend of mine and her husband were invited to spend the weekend at the husband's employer's home. My friend, Arlene, was nervous about the weekend. The boss was very wealthy, with a fine home on the waterway and cars costing … [Read more...]

"Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”  At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying … [Read more...]