I want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down,down, just like one of those poor,tired leaves."

VOA: special.2009.08.01

At the time,her husband had said: "When I am gone,lay my remains in some quiet place like this."

VOA: special.2010.01.07

And that's killing me inside. I feel like a zombie because there's nothing that I can do to my people that's struggling."

VOA: special.2010.02.01

My voice is like an old womans. My eyes no longer show me the way my feet go.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

If there was no home like this, I would have no place to go to continue my education.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

You know, it's like three dollars for something that's, I don't know, in my mind pretty luxurious."

VOA: special.2010.04.12

My own religious education as a Lutheran did not teach me to like Catholic monks.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

From what we know about a man like Murlock, we may try to imagine some of the details of the story told by my grandfather.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

My two boys like to compete against each other and play in a violent way.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

"My whole life,I'm like, I'm Mexican and I'm really -- I'm a proud Mexican-American and I swear I was an Aztec princess in my past life.

VOA: special.2010.09.13

"My work might be like theater in that I hope there's an audience.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

And I had a few companies then. But then a couple years ago, with the turn,now my business is like eighty percent corporate, twenty percent in-home private.

VOA: special.2011.02.28

"I would like to see the mountains," I said, and then my dream began to form along with the sentence, "I might,I want to be a doctor."

VOA: special.2009.02.14

"My April results, like the three previous ones, registered a negative outcome."

VOA: special.2010.04.28