According to the newspaper Daily Mirror, the average person spends 2 hours and 28 minutes a day stressing, often over issues such as parenting, jobs and finances. Whenever I start to think of stress as a contemporary challenge, though, my thoughts turn to the Paleolithic era, when stress involved trying not to be eaten by a saber tooth cat. People were stressed out in the Middle Ages, avoiding the Plague. They were stressed out in the French Revolution, avoiding beheading. So

An old woman shuffled into a little town in Texas , leading an old tired mule. The old lady headed straight for the only saloon in town, to clear her parched throat. She walked up to the saloon and tied her old mule to the hitch rail. ​ As she stood there, brushing some of the dust from her face and clothes, a young gunslinger stepped out of the saloon with a gun in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other. The young gunslinger looked at the old woman and laughed, sayin

(author unknown) There is a story many years ago of an elementary teacher. Her name was Mrs. Thompson. And as she stood in front of her 5th grade class on her very first day of school, she told the children a lie. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same. But that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard. Mrs. Thompson had watched Teddy the year before and noticed

Resolutions taken without thought bring disasters without remedy. He who behaves like a fool repents like a wise man; as happened to the King of High-Hill, who through unexampled folly committed an act of madness putting in jeopardy both his daughter and his honour. Once upon a time the King of High-Hill being bitten by a flea caught him by a wonderful feat of dexterity; and seeing how handsome and stately he was he had not the conscience to sentence him to death. So he put h