Aloka, The Peace Dog I’ve seen a lot of good in this world. But what happened in Dayton, Texas, might just restore your faith in humanity altogether. Twenty Buddhist monks were walking—yes, walking—from Fort Worth to Washington D.C. Twenty-three hundred miles of American highway beneath their bare feet. They were spreading peace, they said. Lord […]

Discover a treasury of true tales where animals rescue us as much as we rescue them. From Louis’s battle with lifelong depression and a beaten-up stray named Oscar who saved his soul, to a little girl finding hope through her dog Blue after her family’s greatest loss. Walk Tybee Island’s sunset shores with a PTSD […]

It’s 1963. That summer, responsibility looms—sweeping floors at the Ben Franklin Store—but for now, Darryl Armstrong and childhood buddy Carroll Boyd plan the ultimate forbidden mission: a 21-mile county bike tour. They pool $3.78 at Miss Garrett’s Jot ’Em Down, fill plastic canteens, and mount their single-speed Murray bikes under a golden sun. Together they […]

That Monday afternoon—Valentine’s Day, 1966—Barry Sadler’s war-whoop of a ballad crackled through the AM radio just as I mustered the courage to ask my classmate to go out with me. I was a gawky sixteen-year-old armed with a freshly minted driver’s license and a 1959 Chevy Impala: gleaming white paint, garrish red plastic seats that […]

“If you want to know a man, spend time with him in a foxhole or providing executive security for an a**.” L. Darryl Armstrong We sat at Hooters at ten P.M., eighteen hours on our feet behind us. Before me, a dozen fiery wings and the coldest and sweetest iced tea I’d ever tasted. The […]

Photo from Facebook site Maysville Animal Control Before dawn’s first light, a bronze-tan dog with a graying muzzle slows to a careful limp at the wrought-iron entrance of Maysville Cemetery. A single American flag flutters beside a simple marble headstone: “Kenneth Bramel 1945–2025.” In that hushed morning mist—when the Ohio River’s fog drifts like a […]

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In a world where luggage disappears like morning mist, a small teddy bear with gingham attire and the most darling bunny slippers waits patiently at Norfolk International Airport’s Lost & Found. The bear—let’s call him Gingham, for now—found himself abandoned on December 30th, a casualty of holiday travel’s chaotic ballet. The airport, showing more tenderness […]

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https://books.by/darryl-armstrong I was eight years old when my Great Aunt Anzie became my “nanny.” I also had Aunt Orey (Ora), Aunt Bazil (Basil), Aunt Lener (Lena) and Aunt Vick (Victoria)—names in the fifties really were poetic—but it was Aunt Anzie who guided me through my earliest years. She stood about five foot eleven and weighed […]

In the quiet dawn of a Saturday morning in January 1981, the first light of the morning gently touched the frost-kissed windows of Maplehurst Court in Knoxville, a place Conner Matthews had called home for the past six months—the once-majestic 1929 apartment building that housed the divorced, the retired, and several poor graduate students. The […]

“When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead, keep your head up high and gaze into heaven, for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.” – M. E. Adebayo Conner Matthews sits at his worn writing desk and squints at the calendar in his mind—December 31, 1980, […]

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Somewhere in San Antonio, Texas Kamillia Peralta’s legs are kicking beneath a Christmas tree, and that is a miracle. For 305 days, those same legs kicked against hospital sheets at St. Luke’s Baptist NICU, earning her the nickname “Happy Feet” from nurses who watched over her incubator. They kicked through surgeries to tuck organs back […]