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Please review our inspirational stories. Some of these stories are from history, others are contributed from people just like you. Do you have a story waiting to be told? Please make the next story you see here your own.
Climbing Out of Fear – One Icy Step at a Time
Bernadette had gotten to a point in her life where seemingly everything was predictable and established, yet at the same time it was crumbling. “For most of my life, fear has ruled me,” she says. A...
One Life Lesson With a Small Side of Abuse…Please
When I was aged 10 in the 5th grade, I attended a Catholic School. My mom actually was my teacher. (That is a topic for another story.) This school was an “Academy.” I’m not sure if by adding the...
Coming to America and Overcoming Abuse
I came to America when I was only thirteen to live with an uncle. My parents had just divorced. I didn’t speak much English and had never met this part of my family. After staying with me for a...
Sir George
George McBride was the owner of Sir George's Smorgasbord, a southern California restaurant chain. I was working as a busboy at 16 at the San Bernardino restaurant. George seemed very old to me at...
Busted Down in San Berdoo
Our car stalled in somewhere off of 3rd street in San Bernardino. Not the nicest part of town. I had just driven the nearly 1100 miles from Shallowater, Texas. I actually had been stopped by the...
Girl Overboard!
Everything in life has an element of danger. Walking across the street can be dangerous in the right circumstances. In the list of dangerous pursuits, walking across the street might be considered a...
Count that Day Lost
If you sit down at the set of sun. And count the acts that you have done. And, counting, find one self-denying deed, one word. That eased the heart of him who heard,. One glance most kind. That fell...
The Lion and the Mouse
One day a great lion lay asleep in the sunshine, A little mouse ran across his paw and wakened him. The great lion was just going to eat him when the little mouse cried, “Oh, please, let me go, sir....
Teen Author Turns COVID Tragedy into Triumph
We know that the COVID pandemic delivered heartache throughout the world. The WHO estimates that nearly 800 million people contracted the disease and nearly 7 million died. Many of those that...