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The Ten Second Lesson
By: Norhafizah Manaf
It was during the World Championships Games which was held in Tokyo, Japan in 1991. The 100m mens finals was about to take place. There certainly was a cheerful festive atmosphere that late evening in Tokyo. The sun was just about to set. Read more.

The Polka Dotted Scarf
By: Geetanjali Jha
I remember opening up his big wooden wardrobe and burying my nose into his handkerchiefs. His clothes always had a pleasant, sweet, and mystical smell…not just his clothes, his closets, his bed; his entire room was infused with that intoxicating smell. Read more.

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A Night to Remember
By: Douglas R. Johnson
Tonight is Sunday evening, the first day of daylight savings time. My wife is in bed sleeping now, but what I am relating was what I felt earlier this evening. We were watching Jewel of the Nile together, me on the floor and Peg on the couch. She never made it to the end but I was wide awake. Read more.

A Search for Truth
By: Pamela S. De Leon
I once read that between truth and the search for truth, opt for the second. I believe that sometimes, no matter how hard we search to find the truth, in the end, sometimes it just doesn't matter. Read more.

I Laid My Head in My Mother's Lap
By: Susan Mickelson
She was starting to get anxious and restless, so I sat her next to me on the couch. I had the urge to lay my head on her lap. It has been years since I did that and it brought back a flood of memories of my childhood. Read more.

Good Old Days Magazine remembers the best of times from the turn of the century on up through the '50s and all straight from the heart. Written by our readers, each new issue brings you stories and photos of the greatest generation - their first-hand experiences, their laughs, their sorrows, their reactions to inventions, and much more are captured in a personal, nostalgic format. This easy to read collection of memories fascinates and rewards both young and old. 1 Year, 12 Issues :: Cover Price: $35.88 :: Your Price: $19.97 => Click Here to Buy It Now!

Snow Hill Sniper
By: Mike Morin
Back when I was a young boy, there were some woods behind our house and in those woods was a dirt road that led to an abandoned sand quarry, complete with a sloping wall of top soil, which in winter became a pretty big and steep snow hill, for a ten year old anyway. Read more.

Mission Space
By: Douglas R. Johnson
For the first 25 plus years of my life, I never got to Florida. Well, after I was married, I went to Florida for the first time as a "Band Parent" with my wife, Peg as chaperones for our daughter's marching band trip. They marched in competitions and actually participated in the parade in Disney World. Read more.

The Night Before Christmas
By: P.E. Adotey Addo
It was the night before Christmas and I was very sad because my family life had been severely disrupted and I was sure that Christmas would never come. There was none of the usual joy and anticipation that I always felt during the Christmas season. I was eight years old, but in the past few months, I had aged greatly. Read more.

911
By: Loretta Henke
I’m a New York City Teacher working and living in Manhattan. On the morning of 9/11/01, I did ordinary things and had ordinary thoughts. I went to vote and remembered how worried I was that I was going to be late for a meeting I had to go to. The traffic was heavy and I was getting anxious. Read more.

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Once a Man, Twice a Child
By: Mary-Jane Gustin
This old adage was quoted many times from my Mother’s lips. And now I have seen it come full circle. Read more.

The Music Man
By: Karyn Stockwell
He was born in a time when labels were given to children. The labels were words that remained with them for all of their lives. The words caused pain to the people that loved them, but they had no meaning for these children. The labels they were given meant nothing to them. Read more.

Two Dreams
By: Karen Templin
I had known about Jesus my whole life, & I had loved him. I learned about his love, growing up in the Catholic church. I had also heard about the wrath of God. I thought about God as a stern man sitting on a throne in the sky. Read more.

Dad
By: Loretta Henke
I sat by my father’s hospital bed. The sun was setting, its reflection on the river poetic in its raw beauty. We sat quietly. He seemed so far away as he stared into space. I knew then he had lost the will to live. When I commented on the beauty of the sunset he said only, yes, in a childlike way. His eyes were vacant, spiritless. Read more.

The Middle Child
By: Marybel
I have an older brother and a younger sister, as such, was the Child Psychologist's perfect stereotype of The Middle Child Syndrome. My elder brother was allowed to stay up later, to be in charge in the absence of our parents and worst of all, was perpetually held up as a paragon of virtue. Read more.

I was Touched by an Angel
By: Douglas R. Johnson
A number of years ago, my wife went into labor and I took her to the hospital. I was an instructor at Fairleigh Dickinson University and had an office in the research lab just a few blocks from the hospital. So instead of waiting around at the hospital, I went a few blocks back to the lab. Read more.

Unconscious Truth
By: Kelly Lester
Delray was a dirty, crime-ridden ghetto. Of course I was too young to know or understand this at the time. We lived in a one family house on the corner of Burdeno street, a few feet away from the junkyard, across the street from an open field that once bedded a couple of houses that burned, and then were torn down. Abandoned or burned houses were common in the city of Detroit. Read more.

A Star is Born
By: Carrie Wigal
My family moved to Rockaway, New Jersey in the summer of 1978. It was there that my dreams of stardom began. Read more.

America
By: Radenko Fanuka
America was, America is, America will always be a red tulip in my heart. It was the year 1947, and the first time I spoke to a man who walked on American soil. In his old days, he returned to his old nest, just like the birds who fly home. He recounted a remarkably beautiful story throughout our town about the beautiful American way of life. Read more.

Down Memory Lane
By: Viola A. Brady
When I was a little girl growing up in the hills of Western Pennsylvania, the world around us was a lot different from what it is today. Then there were fields and meadows of wildflowers: daisies, Queen Anne's Lace, wild asters, red clover and in the Fall the stately goldenrod. Read more.

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By: You
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