A coach teaches discipline to kids but fails to live it, until one honest question changes everything.

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It’s tricky getting older, losing pieces of who I believed I was, finding quieter, more truthful and solitary pieces settling into their places. We all assume forever, then wake up one morning counting

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The book publishing world in the pre-internet days was a little like the wild west. The wolves were lurking everywhere and part of finding your way in that world was learning how not to become their prey.

In the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela, there are several houses called stilt houses (palafitos), built on wooden stilts over Lake Maracaibo. Carmen, a nurse, lives in one of these houses with her daughter

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Memories of Lucia In the city of Santa Fe, in the state of Sucre, the sun beats down on its beaches, projecting a stifling heat, and pelicans flutter about, their beaks caressing the vast expanse of the

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a silent plea (original poem)

A son remembers the long hospital corridors, quiet hope, and final goodbye while caring for his mother during cancer.

“My love, I’m going out with some friends, I’ll be back around noon!” Her face turned as pale as magnolia blossoms, her lips as white as sea foam. Furious, she shouted: “Get home after midnight and you’ll

“My love, I’m going out with some friends, I’ll be back around noon!” Her face turned as pale as magnolia blossoms, her lips as white as sea foam. Furious, she shouted: “Get home after midnight and you’ll

Source Dr. Vulcania Shaw had spent years serving her quiet hometown clinic, believing love would be her reward. When her boyfriend, Wesley, graduated and moved to the city, promising to prepare a home

2026 is a milestone year for me—the big 5-5, I begin collecting my company pension, and will soon be celebrating a full decade of blogging here on this blockchain. Quite honestly, the past few years haven’t

I think every family has that one piece of wood, metal, or just something that moves with them from age to age and from one apartment to another. Sometimes even when it is clearly of no use to the entire

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Luis is a very precocious, mischievous, and disobedient child who doesn't like to study. He lives in a very nice house with his parents, Deyanira and Evagrio, and his seven siblings: Ángel, Claritza, Efraín,