The Penny In the 90s a woman prayed to God for a money. She had none. She couldn’t feed her children. She couldn’t pay for anything. In fact, she prayed just for a penny because a penny is better than nothing. After her prayer, she stood up in tears and walked out of her cold,…

A Family Reshaped A happy life after divorce recovery. Yesterday I was reminded of something I now feel I might have been forgetting. Let me explain. Family can be your greatest friends. They can also become your worst enemies. Divorce forces a detachment from what was and creates a new blank screen that has to…

The Man That Couldn’t Love – Short Story AFS There’s a man that is old. The man is lonely. He is the man that couldn’t love. He had children and never loved them. He had a wife and never loved her. He had a father that he never loved. He loved his mother but his…

Gadget Addiction – The Life Inside My Screen By Alan Forrest Smith: May 30th 2016 I’m sitting in a cafe. The sun shines, there’s no wind and I am surrounded by strangers. My darling wife is sitting to my left. She is holding my arm like she always holds my arm. She looks at me…

THE LIFE OF A CAT Yoyo died. She was my cat. July 1997 – December 2015 R.I.P. In 1997 I moved all of my family out of a beautiful home and into a caravan in the middle of a field. The field was muddy. The field was also full of sheep. I loved it. The…

Migrants Dead and More Migrants Die – Another Day In Paradise Here we go again, another day, another Syrian life The story continues as the world turns it’s back – again A mother of a son sends him to life. Life is the opposite of death in a distant place. If her son stays in…

The Man from 1925 Sometime ago an old man walked past my car as I sat waiting for my daughter to come out. The old man is old and I mean born in in 1925 old. I know his age because this week he again walked towards my car as I waited outside for my…

This is true so be warned but learn. Kate found God (don’t go just yet it gets interesting beyond words) and announced to her family she had found him. Her life and the life of her family were about to change. Kate had grown up in a regular family yet despite them being regular they…

There’s a man that no man knows. They don’t know where he lives. They know nothing about his life. They have no idea what he does. All they know is they know nothing about this man. One day in the big cafe in the small town near the corner by the old post office the…

Two boys I know. Both friends. One I have known for over 40 years and the other for 38 years. Both boys were best friends most of their lives. They would do everything together. When aged five they had their first shared birthday. At the age of ten the went to each others birthdays and…

Babushka Anna This is a story about love and how that love made a crippling disability vanish. It involves 85 years old babushka Anna who lives next door to our home in Tbilisi, Georgia. Anna is less than five foot in height. She hasn’t left her home now for maybe five years, and her home…

Once there was a man that wanted a car. Not just any car this was a different kind of car. A car desired sought after and admired in the entire world of admired and sought after cars. When he first saw this car he was just a young man. A young man of just 23 years of age, like I said, not old…

Once there was a gentle, happy-go-lucky man from a village somewhere in the heart of England. The village was typically English – small, green, personal and even had a pub called the Farmers Arms and a pond called the Millers Pond and a post office and a baker right in the center of the village.…

This is the story of a ridiculous man in a ridiculous life that wanted something preposterously ridiculous – freedom. Yes I did say freedom for I am the ridiculous man that keeps being told he is ridiculous to want to ask to think about freedom…

Right now I’m in Starbucks drinking coffee, watching, listening, looking and observing humanity. There’s a guy sat around 5 feet away from me. He is alone, around 35, short black hair, looks like he hasn’t been sleeping,, pretty stocky and ‘feels’ very angry. He keeps going on his phone, speaking to people and almost slamming…

Meet Cameron. He is a dreamer. He is a doer. He is a highlander. Cameron is building a house made from trees, real trees, huge trees, not a weak mans log. This is the real thing. Let me explain. On a recent trip into the Highlands of Scotland my friend drove me past and immense…