The white goose repays kindness

Many years ago, my wife and I were driving home late at night when our car broke down in a remote area. With no cell phones at the time, we were stranded until a college student stopped and offered us a ride into town. When we tried to pay him, he simply smiled and said,…

The Mausoleum The word itself feels heavy in the mouth, like a stone dropped into still water: mausoleum. It comes from a single building, the original one, built around 353 BCE in Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap of the Persian Empire. His grieving widow-sister Artemisia II spared no expense. Greek architects Satyros…