I was harrowed by what I saw in the portrait and description of the life of aging parents with developmentally disabled child.

Plastic dog kennels look better than wooden ones.

Restaurants in China should begin to adopt the Western notion and practice of customers giving gratuities to waiters and waitresses.

Or some similar form of profit-sharing such as that they get a percentage of the profits.

Alberta, Canada is alleged by some media to possess a proven oil reserve which is 7 times bigger than that of Saudi Arabia.

Someone in Canada must be happily thinking, "release the kraken!"

Although the world is changing increasingly faster and it has created information overload for nearly everyone, you still want to spend time to mark the trends.

Canada's vast energy reserve has been unleashed.

Will this country of 30 million people be blindfolded by that and then only focus on the energy sector? I don't think so.

't is, 'tis, and 'a

It's relatively easy to guess that 't is  and 'tis mean it is, while it's not so to guess that 'a means he.

The most common phenomenon during funerals is the family members break off in their public speaking.

It's moving, especially at soldiers' funerals.

Now I've become a safe pair of hands in the family kitchen.

But I'm confined in Chinese cooking.

Nearly everyone endorses innovation.

But not nearly everyone has the courage to make it.

Peace. Eventually green energies will illume the energetic sky of the human kind.

Since the beginning of the Great Recession, I for one don't like to hear yet some new troubling financial news assailing from yet another country.

Yet it happened almost every quarter.

And, oftentimes, there are other kettles of fish which are worrisome, such as the continuous rise of the obesity rate among North Americans.

Do American politicians especially like to play chicken?

Fracking oil domestically will set the U.S. free from foreign oil dependence.

That prospect is just too alluring for the country.

Is duel and competition among opposing political parties really necessary for democracy?

The winds have unkennelled winter.

A quote

"Tush, child, tush," said the old Frog, "that was only Farmer White's Ox.
-Fables by Aesop

To develop a deep sense of gratitude requires intelligence and wisdom, I think.

Do most rice kernels look very good? No.

Do they taste good with Chinese dishes? Definitely.

A man has to entreat at some point(s) in his life.