Lynn Jones

“I am my father's daughter/I am the product of his sacrifice./ I am the accumulation of the dreams of generations,/And their stories live in me like holy water./I am my father's daughter.”

The author John Steinbeck loved the sea, and he loved nature. On one occasion, Steinbeck and his friend Ed Ricketts conceived the idea of going to the Sea of Cortez located between Baja California and the rest of Mexico. On the journey they would collect specimens from the sea to sell to labs and would also explore the region. They chartered a boat and crew and carried out their expedition in the spring of 1940. After their return, Steinbeck wrote Log from the Sea of Cortez, which is an account of the journey.

In this country, you are guaranteed free speech, but that is as far as the Constitution goes. There is no guarantee that anyone will listen to your speech. Considering the

It was not until about 1948 that electricity arrived at our house in Plainview, Louisiana. One of my first memories is seeing the workers put the big utility poles into

The “home court advantage” is a major factor in ball games. Generally, coaches feel that playing on your home court is worth several points in a game.

A teacher was asked, “Why did you enter the teaching profession?” She responded, “There were three major reasons: June, July, and August.”

When I was a small boy, my grandmother had one of those little glass globes filled with water sitting on a shelf in her home.

The light appears to have no color. But when you bend the light, you see that it is made up of all the colors of a rainbow. Love is like

Jonathan Swift told a classic tale in Gulliver's Travels. Gulliver was a normal-size man who arrived in the land of Lilliput.

Poor John Doe. Here's what happened to him. He was caught red-handed trying to burglarize a business in Dallas, Texas.