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The Gift That Keeps Giving
These three shoppers got a lot more than they bargained for…
What John Muir Beheld
On my shelf at home, I keep a treasured photo album of my great-grandfather’s trip to Yosemite in 1901.
Star Turn: Matthew McConaughey
“Just keep livin’.”
My Last Crusade
I was 30 days sober, and I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to make it to day 31.
Q&A Dr.Mary C.Neal
A Conversation With the Best-selling Author of to Heaven and Back and the Recently Released 7 Lessons From Heaven
the owl whisperer
doug pojeky, the president of the wild at heart animal-rescue center in vancleave, mississippi, has a way with animals. you might call it otherworldly. he’s not a veterinarian—he served 20 years as a navy seabee. but from the time he was a child, doug had a profound connection with other living creatures. gigi sensed it immediately.
tourist attraction
to find true love in rome—what could be more romantic? like audrey hepburn and gregory peck zipping around on a vespa in the classic fifties movie roman holiday. visiting the vatican, the forum, the colosseum. it was a dream of mine, ever since my girlfriends and i began planning a three-week tour through europe. i was 34 years old, and i’d never even left north america!
The Abolitionist
The Abolitionist
A Small Corner Of The World
In this world is darkness, so let us shine—You in your small corner and I in mine.
A New Calling
Frank is my acupuncturist.
Not in This World
I was afraid of the water. Always had been. I couldn’t even swim.
Buried Alive
Coins. Bullets. Buckles. Bayonets.
The Search
“Something is following us.”
Wonderful World
Las Vegas, Nevada It’s been more than six years since Larry Giese, a retired Marine and a police officer, lost his 24-year-old son, Lance Cpl. Joseph Ryan “Goose” Giese, in Afghanistan.
the eternal heart
i thought i knew death. i knew its stark finality. i’d seen it up close. a nurse is supposed to get used to death, accept it as a fact of life. but witnessing death come to someone who meant the world to me made me question everything. was death simply a full stop? was there nothing more?
Wonderful World
Camrose, Alberta, Canada When Mary Grams lost her engagement ring while weeding on her family farm in 2004, she was devastated.
That Nagging Feeling
“Hi,” I said into the phone, leaving a message.
The Four Miracles Of Dunkirk
You may have seen the hit movie Dunkirk, director Christopher Nolan’s powerful tribute to the real-life World War II drama that unfolded over 10 days in 1940, on the shores of France. But there’s more to the story than what was shown on the screen. To wit, four miracles that changed the course of the war.