735-word version: Have you ever tried to be a friend to a lonely hedgehog? It is your decision to make, but once you have decided to do so, you should be warned that you are opting to be pricked by its thorns. It would be painful. Yet you might get a precious life lesson: do not ever befriend it a..

Not so long ago, I stumbled upon my mom`s diary on how she nursed and raised me from infancy to childhood. It was one of the most interesting documentary chronicles I have ever read, and one particular passage especially drew my attention. It was about an episode when she asked me what I wanted to..

...Dixie 9 was composed of eight players at the time, and I stepped into their world as the ninth member, and as a fiddle player... But trying a whole different genre of music was a different matter. Traditional jazz was the genre in which I had the least experience, and furthermore, the violin wa..

A car and a person`s life have many facets in common. Just as a person goes through a long process of maturation before being born, then living in care and concern of his or her parents, a car also goes through a long process of assembly before being produced, then running in care and calibration..

Ever since I was little I have been engrossed in driving cars. I would get in the driver side of my dad`s car and pretend that I was driving on an Autobahn every time my dad would be away on business. So as soon as I turned eighteen, I decided to take the driver`s license test...

551-word version: ...Curious, peculiar, or even eccentric, though it may reverberate through the catacombs from the tympanic membrane to the cochlear nucleus and inferior colliculus to the thalamus to the temporal lobe, the seemingly anachronistic wireless telegraphy, or the radio, has been the co..