Jay
RSS FEED IDEMS: Stories from the Heart
- Blindness
Well, dad's been declared legally blind. His diagnosis is a condition known as macular degeneration, a phenomenon where one loses his sight in the middle of the field of vision.
- Bundle of Sticks
Trouble had come to the little town. Something soured the entire community and nobody was sure what it was. Everybody had a beef with somebody. It was too bad.
- Bobby Thomas' Airplane
Will Thomas was well known around Buttermilk Hollow for his ability to build practically anything, and his youngest boy, Bobby, enjoyed tinkering with his hands just like his pa, only he didn't have his pa's know-how.
- Johnny Appleseed
It remains a wonder to me just what lengths people will go to in the name of love.
There was a once young man by the name of Jonathan Chapman, and he settled in my home town, Pittsburgh, Pa.
- Lesson Well Learned
I knew she was gunning for me. She had my older brother in her eighth grade home room a couple of years earlier, and he was a hand full. Now, I was no angel, either.
- Facts of Life
Now, most of you who are parents are more than familiar with the anxiety surrounding the "dreaded question" that's bound to come up from your kids sooner or later. You know, the one about s-e-x.
- Flying Dreams
I had a dream last night, and, BOY, was it ever a doozie! You see, I I'm standing on a street corner, waiting for nothing in particular, when, all of a sudden, I lean into the wind, and just when I'm at the right angle, my feet slip off the ground and I'm up in the air.
- Famous
Mom always said if I practiced my piano enough I'd become rich and famous. That statement struck me as strange for a couple of reasons.
- Angels in the Night
As a child I was terrified of angels. Actually, it wasn't the angels themselves, it was the thought that they might appear to me at any time without warning.
- Andrew Carnegie
In my home town of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the name of Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate, is uttered with a peculiar reverence. And well it should be.
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