Final Arrangements Judith Schoolman This I Believe, 2013, and Yom Kippur 2014 I believe people should make arrangements for their “final rest” before they die and not leave everything…
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Janice Eidus This I Believe, 2014 When I take the elevator downstairs to check my mail or pick up a package at the front desk, I slip my Kindle…
Isabel Kaplan This I Believe, 2014 When your children leave home, you better have some meaningful people and activities in your life to fill the vacuum that their absence…
Carole Mehlman This I Believe, 2014 When Carol asked me to do this at first all I could come up with were one-sentence answers. Then, while working in my…
Susan Ryan This I Believe, 2014 How often do people get a second chance? From the time you’re small, you’re always being told “there are no second chances,” and…
Michael Otterman (This I Believe, 2014) The air was crisp, cold, and though it was only 3:30 PM, the late afternoon sun cast long shadows off the spindly trees that…
Jim Ryan This I Believe, 2013 Some of the other folks up here tonight are likely to be discussing that moment of epiphany where a concept came into being,…
Jim Kurtz (This I Believe, 2013) The minute I replied to Carol’s e-mail I wanted to take it back. I am hardly eloquent nor am I a philosopher, and am…
Trudy Elins This I Believe, 2011 When I look back on my childhood memories so many that are the most crystalline, or the most comforting, are memories where at…