For a minute I reeled, and I do believe I would have learned what fainting meant the same day I learned crying, if those little fingers hadn't held on to me tight while the doctor gave just a whiff of chloroform ...— Phyllis • Maria Thompson Daviess Read full book for free! ....
His expressive brown eyes met and held mine, and in the next instant a beautiful, brilliant smile covered his face. The magic power of that smile made all bitterness within me melt, and I found the muscles in my own face happily responding. “Beautiful day, isn’t it” I remarked, in...
Summer Playground programming always included a parade. Peter would be on his unicycle, dribbling a basketball, and I would clatter behind on wooden stilts. We held Backyard Carnivals, under the guise of raising money for children with muscular dystrophy, but getting the folder in the mail with...
So, because I am stuck in this terminal for another four hours waiting for the plane which cost £200 more than it should after I missed the one before because I was having such a nice holiday, and for what it’s worth, here are my suggestions for nicer airports: * Sofas. Yes, I...
I come from a nuclear family (my father, mother, and me) of professionals. My father is a civil engineer and my mother is an economist. However, shortly after graduating, they began working in the private sector due to the poor conditions provided by the state sector. For my parents, th...
I cracked the silence. I read every book in print – and out of print – about the Mafia. Allen Smiley was in dozens. He was a Russian Jew, a criminal, Bugsy’s right-hand man, a dope peddler, pimp, a racetrack tout. I held close the memory of a benevolent father, wise counselor...
body. The scent of saintliness. The gentlest of perfumes which stirs in the soul yearnings, burnings, and zeal, and which, emanating from beneath the slab whereunder lies Fray Juan and drifting through the air, at times reaches my own nose like a distant jasmine while at this door I ...
the stumbles and fumbles are usually unintended, and I own them. Somewhere along the journey of art-making over many decades, I let go of the striving for perfection. In doing so, found a newfound compassion for my humanity, a knowing that I was part of a world that is both beautiful...
with the release, I realize the amount of fear that has been holding me back.I realize the kind of self doubt that I have carried with me for so long. In spite of the fact that I have been a great promoter of Vocal Freedom, I have held myself hostage, in a way, to my own ...
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