When I joined the Prison service I “up sticks” and moved from Wakefield to London to another world and a different life. T’was the making of me. Christmas day would often find me quite happily working and I often volunteered to work both Christmas and Boxing Day giving my married mates...
I give each woman a snowflake Christmas ornament. One woman who can speak a tiny bit of English, says, “Flower?” “Snow,” I say, and I spend fifteen giggling minutes trying to explain snow to women who have never seen it. Wendy and I bring out plastic beads and gold elastic, and...
This woman and her husband had been married for 63 years, and the entire time she was in the hospital, her husband would not leave her side. Our other friend had spent a great Saturday with her mother. They went shopping and were most likely finalizing family Christmas plans, and probably...
Christmas Eve –Hayley kept us on task with our traditions. We always went to the zoo during the day. We would feel like the only ones there. Hayley could sit with her orangutans friends. Henry got to help the keeper feed the penguins. Pick an ornament and stuffed animal in the gift ...
A young man married is a man that''s marred.男子早婚,种下祸根。 Bacchus has drowned more men than Nepture. 酒神淹死的人比海神多。 Bad news has wings. 坏事传千里。 Bad workmen often blame their tools. 拙匠常怪工具差。 Bare words, no bargain. 空言不能成交易。 Barking dogs seldom bite...
4So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.5He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.6While they were there, ...
But when Ben and I got married and had Ashley, going back home for Christmas took on a new meaning. It meant going home to pick up my mother so she and her dog could spend Christmas with the three of us. In my dreams, I still can. ...
There is a Chinese idiom to describe the best status of a married couple — 相敬如宾(xiāng jìng rú bīn), which means to treat each other with the respect like to treat a guest. This can also apply to friendship. We should never take anything as granted, friendship is based on mutu...
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Even as children, we would get up at the crack of dawn on Christmas morning, wake up our parents, and hurry into the living room to see what had been left under the tree. As we grew up, married, and had children of our own, the tradition continued with our own kids waking us up...