Steven's Stories

The commercials are classic. A car pulls alongside another, in which a man is sitting in the backseat with an fancy sandwich on a plate, wit...

In which my "Days of Yore" series meets my previous series on simple acts of kindness shown to me in the past. Most entries in my ...

When US airspace was closed following the horrifying attacks on New York, Washington DC and Pittsburgh, 38 planes were diverted to the small...

Kamas, Utah, 2022. I had just arrived at the conference center and happened to look down at the ground to discover this guy smiling up at me...

March 1941. Ken was a young man in love. He had to been getting to know Marian for some time, and he knew she was the one. He asked and she ...

Cainta, Philippines (near Manila). That evening, we were gathered around the piano singing from a songbook while my mom played piano. We san...

Fred Rogers was one of those rare people who was able to maintain a child-like spirit in a world full of grown-ups who had lost all sense of...

Montana, early 1970s. A young elementary teacher taught at one school in the morning and another in the afternoon. That day, she was driving...

Lucy Kotecki is one of the most amazing and talented people I know, and she is currently a teenager. As I mentioned in my blog yesterday, sh...

It was just after midnight when my brother got the call from the hospital. My mom came in the room, and when she saw him on the phone at tha...

สวัสดี ครับ ( Sawadee khrap! )* Hello! Thailand is a stunningly beautiful country with a very long history. Our adventure there in 1990 was ...

In late 2001, the world was still reeling from 9/11. I had a temporary position in September, which ended sometime after that. As finding a ...

Hérouville Saint-Clair, Normandy, France (near Caen), August 1999. My study abroad program was going great! I was with a group of students f...

It's the age-old question. Well, one of the many. You find the treasures in the store that you can't live without (figuratively spea...

1995. The combined youth groups from several churches in the Seattle area took the train from Seattle to San Diego, spent the night in Chula...

Her story is inspirational. She aspired to be an airline captain from a young age, at a time when that was an occupation reserved for men. S...

She was known as the Queen of 44th. She had lived near the corner of 44th and 212th, on the border of Lynnwood and Mountlake Terrace, Washin...