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January 2013

January 31, 2013
Six journals filled with hand-written praise and thanks from everyday Americans are among Sgt. Timothy...
January 30, 2013
Meeting someone on a plane can be memorable, but rarely does it lead to selling...
January 29, 2013
Our daily lives are full of temptations that tax our self-control and drain our willpower—forcing...
January 28, 2013
Well-known for her beauty, actress Hedy Lamarr had another side.  Growing up Jewish in Austria,...
January 27, 2013
The Hahn brothers have long found meaning in life by serving others.  Both 85-year-old Lawrence...
January 26, 2013
Maryknoll Father James Keller, the founder of The Christophers, encouraged everyone he met to be...
January 25, 2013
After her daughter, Penny, was born with Down syndrome, Amy Julia Becker admits to feeling...
January 24, 2013
When we are created, we are given special talents, though we don’t yet know it....
January 23, 2013
A new bike is a dream come true for many children.  However, for Francessca Robertson,...
January 22, 2013
In 1981, Wall Street executive Kathy DiFiore realized she was feeling spiritually unfulfilled.  She asked...
January 21, 2013
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading figure of the 1960s civil rights movement. ...
January 20, 2013
Christopher Klusman was born deaf so he understands the feelings of isolation and marginalization that...
January 19, 2013
The 19th century French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte spent the final six years of his life...
January 18, 2013
Teacher Tony Apuzzi first met Jasalle Ruiz when she was “a rowdy sixth grader” at...
January 17, 2013
Busy wife, mom and writer Elizabeth Duffy had to drop out of a months-in-the-making dinner...
January 16, 2013
A little girl hurt in a disastrous Indiana accident was ultimately rescued by the efforts...
January 15, 2013
John Cullen of the U.S. Coast Guard was a World War Two hero you may...
January 14, 2013
When Janice Sparhawk, 72, fell behind on the mortgage payments of her Wisconsin home, her...
January 13, 2013
Bankruptcy and divorce were just two of the problems with which a member of Father...
January 12, 2013
“I think we identify with people who can’t help themselves.  I never realized that until...
January 11, 2013
Olympian Shawn Johnson’s first gymnastics coach at age five told her mother that the youngster...
January 10, 2013
In light of all the people struggling to find jobs so they can support themselves...
January 09, 2013
“I have fears…big ones, little ones, medium ones…served up like different size fries you order...
January 08, 2013
Bob invited a large group of friends to dinner at his home, and asked his...
January 07, 2013
The Character That’s the Strongest Prior to his death in 2001, actor Carroll O’Connor’s final...
January 06, 2013
For 16 years, blogger Elizabeth Scalia, her husband and their two sons thought of their...
January 05, 2013
The start of a new year may fill you with feelings of both anticipation and...
January 04, 2013
When the late Johnny Cash's wife, June Carter Cash, died in 2003, many of the...
January 03, 2013
In his novel From the Corner of His Eye, best-selling author Dean Koontz shares thoughts...
January 02, 2013
In 2008, New York Police Officer Susan Porcello and her partner responded to a 911...
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