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August 29, 2005

This I Believe

It Could Have Been Me Pro-lifers formed a two-block demonstration line next to the curb along a busy shopping area in Frederick MD. My husband and I drove by these well-dressed men, women and children on our way home from...
August 29, 2005

This I Believe

IT MATTERS TO THIS ONE I am talking to a woman who eloped at age seventeen to marry a young man everyone warned her about. She tells me her story. From their wedding night it was obvious she had made...
August 25, 2005

This I Believe

THIS I BELIEVE "Will you still love me, will you still need me when I'm 64?" It was nearly dawn when my husband of twenty-four years, began quietly singing these famous lyrics by John Lennon. It was his 64th birthday....
August 25, 2005

The First Breath

I am a stone cold atheist. Yet this essay has unexpectedly brought me to a startling fact: I find that I believe in miracles, and in my case the miracle is breath -- first breath -- the first breath of...
August 24, 2005

This I Believe

"This I Believe" I believe that the system that is running this country is more than a little backwards and it frightens me that people seem to be continuing to become more technologically advanced and communicating in more ignorant ways....
August 22, 2005

This I Believe

Dear NPR - "This I Believe": May I offer an, as yet, unvoiced alternative spiritual perspective in the seemingly immovable abortion debate between pro-choice and pro-life positions? Oh, and by the way, is not the abortion debate a spiritual debate?...
August 16, 2005

This I Believe

I am twenty five years old. I am still young, but my dark brown hair has a few strands of gray finding their way to the surface, I have scars and the stories that go with them... and now I...
August 15, 2005

The Simple Joys of Life

My assistant was dressed in a pink baseball hat, Winnie-the-Pooh pajamas, a bright orange apron, garden gloves, and two right-footed frog boots. In my jeans and sweatshirt, I felt plain and underdressed. Despite the differences in our uniforms, we cooperated...
August 2, 2005

This I Believe

The loud, urgent, insistent beep summons me from sleep. I turn to grab my pager and check the time. It is very early morning, and the page is from one of my clients. She is beginning labor. The final steps...