Steven's Stories

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...

I wrote this poem December 28, 2004 after the massive 9.0 earthquake and tsunami two days earlier across the Indian Ocean. It claimed over 2...

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

Daisy was a beautiful and loyal collie who lived on my great-aunt and great-uncle's farm in Montana. I wrote this poem in 2001, shortly ...

"It's a beautiful day!" It was a sunny day, and I had to agree with my classmate at BCTI. I don't recall his name, but his...