My friend got married. His mother carried two bags of cotton from the countryside by bus and train to his city. After arriving at the city, there was still a long way to hi...

As the new year close, it is a big new for Chinese tennis fans that Li Na comes to the final of Australian Open! It is the third time she has done this, what a honorable thing. Li ...

  We lived on the banks of the Tennessee River, and we owned the summers when we were girls. We ran wild through humid summer days that never ended but only melted one into th...

     The secret to happiness is keeping busy, research has found. Keeping the mind occupied with tasks - no matter how meaningless - staves off negative emotion...

  A vacationing American businessman, standing on the pier of a remote coastal fishing village in southern Mexico, watched as a small boat with just one young Mexican fisherma...

In 1994 I wrote a letter. I stuck it in an envelope, put it away and completely forgot about it。 It wasn’t until we moved into our new home in 2006 that I found it again. It w...

The world is changing rapidly and most people are very anxious about it. In fact, I think it might even be stronger and more accurate to say that most people are downright fearful ...

  One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Avenue, when I remembered that it was necessary to buy a pair of socks. I turned into the first sock shop that caught my eye, an...

Life is short. Are you doing what you love? Are you living your passion? If not, why? I am guessing most people will answer that question with 'I have a mortgage, a spouse and t...

1. Believe in yourself when no one else does. Lin’s only the 4th graduate from Harvard to make it to the NBA. He’s also one of only a handful of Asian-Americans to make it. He wa...