Too Old to Fly? The Day Experience Saved 300 Lives
After 36 years in the cockpit, I was just one year from retirement when my airline told me I’d be training on the Airbus A350 — the most advanced airliner in service. I’d spent decades on the Boeing 767. The…
Single Dad Struggles Raising Triplets, One Day Finds Out They Aren’t His — Story of the Day
Dried, rotten brown leaves crunched under Jordan Fox’s boots as he pushed his baby stroller into the Manhattan cemetery’s ornate gateway. Dry flowers and half-burnt candles were strewn across the lawn. A gust of wind howled through the row of…
Sad News About George W. Bush
Former President George W. Bush recently made headlines when he stepped up to throw the ceremonial first pitch at the World Series opener. However, there was a surprising turn of events. His daughter, Jenna Bush Hager, shared some insights into…
My Wife Hadn’t Even Been Buried When My Sister Asked For Her Jewelry
My wife was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and was gone in two years. My sister Sarah didn’t do a single thing for us during that time. At my wife’s wake, she started asking about my wife’s clothes. She wanted to…
Keeping Them
We agreed to take one child for a few days—our house was small, money tight—until the social worker arrived with seven-year-old Liam and his five-year-old sister, Mia, bound for a different foster home hours away. In a heartbeat we pulled…
The Boy With The Dirty Shirt
The class had a messy youngster. The other kids avoided him because he smelled awful. A teacher wrote to his parents to encourage him to bathe more. He brought a note from his father to school the next day: “My…
My Dad Woke Up from a Coma Claiming He Heard Everything in the Hospital Room — and What He Revealed About My Wife Changed Our Lives Forever – Wake Up Your Mind
My father and my wife had never liked each other. In fact, “not getting along” was putting it mildly — for years, there was an unspoken tension whenever they were in the same room. Family dinners were polite but stiff,…
A Dream Fulfilled With Kindness
88-year-old Violet, a retired nurse, was simply heading home after visiting her daughter when she met Jack, a kind young man who listened as she shared a lifelong wish: to one day sit at the front of a plane. Violet…
I BOUGHT MYSELF A BIRTHDAY CAKE—BUT NO ONE CAME
Today’s my 97th birthday. I woke up with no candles, no cards, no phone calls. I live in a small room above a closed-down hardware store. The landlord doesn’t charge me much, mostly because I fixed his plumbing last winter….
