Have You Been Sharpening Your Axe?
A young man approached the foreman of a logging crew and asked for a job. “Let’s see you fell this tree first,” said the foreman. The young man stepped forward…
A young man approached the foreman of a logging crew and asked for a job. “Let’s see you fell this tree first,” said the foreman. The young man stepped forward…
I give you back your child, the same child you confidently entrusted to my care last fall. I give him back pounds heavier, inches taller, months wiser, more responsible, and…
Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply: “If I were…
My son starts school today. It is all going to be strange and new to him for a while and I wish you would treat him gently. It is an…
There was an old man who had a dream one night that he would be protected from a ravaging storm that would engulf his whole village. The next day, as…
You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was…
There was a village on the outskirts of a forest. A shepherd boy used to take his herd of sheep across the fields to the lawns near the forest. One…
The Owl always takes her sleep during the day. Then after sundown, when the rosy light fades from the sky and the shadows rise slowly through the wood, out she…
A son took his old father to a restaurant for an evening dinner. Father being very old and weak, while eating, dropped food on his shirt and trousers. Other diners…