Alice and Paul were worried about their holiday trip to visit Alice’s mom. Their 6-year-old son, Jack, was still wetting the bed. Every time someone mentioned the trip, Jack said he didn’t want to go. Jack was still embarrassed after last year, when he wet the bed at grandma’s house...

As a working-student and dad, I don’t have ample time to spend with my son during weekdays. However, despite my very hectic schedule, I make it a point to go straight home after work, so I would be there when he wakes up, and we could spend breakfast together everyday. I read him a good story, play...

Rule 1:  Life is not fair – get used to it. Rule 2:  The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. Rule 3:  You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won’t be a...

After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. She said, “I love you, but I know this other woman loves you too, and she would love to spend some time with you.” The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my MOTHER, who has been a widow...

It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man. College, girls, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the past and often no time to spend with his wife...

He was driving home one evening, on a two-lane country road. Work, in this small mid-western community, was almost as slow as his beat-up Pontiac. But he never quit looking. Ever since the Levis factory closed, he’d been unemployed, and with winter raging on, the chill had finally hit home. It...

In the mid-1980’s researchers at Cleveland State University made a startling discovery. They conducted an experiment by creating two fictitious job candidates David and John. The candidates had identical resumes and letters of reference. The only difference was that John’s letter included...

Every day I will wake, look at myself in the mirror and say: “There is no justice. I may be the victim of many unfortunate circumstances in life of which I have no control over. Regardless, I will not make excuses. I will not whine and complain. I will not feel sorry for myself. No! Instead, I...

My wife and I just celebrated our eighteenth wedding anniversary. We spent the day lavishly treating ourselves to a visit to the Oncology Ward in Oshawa for chemo cocktails and later a romantic interlude at Sunnybrook’s Radiation department. You may not think there’s anything sexy about having two...

In December of 1992 I was a happy husband and father of two young children. A month later, I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoplastic Luekemia. After two years of chemoterapy that helped me into remission, my body was weak and lifeless. I felt as if I were a puppet who needed help to lift his arms or hold...