Tag: Grew

Prompt: Have you ever thought about starting your own business? What did you have in mind, and what stopped you? Or, if you have your own business, share with us the story of your success. My grandfather opened a store that my father took over for him. It wasn’t what my father wanted to do ...

In the modern world, a man can decide himself to grow or not to grow a beard. After all, today, this choice is not regulated by legal, moral and ethical standards, but rather is determined by fashion trends. But this was not always the case. For example, among the ancient Greeks, the wearing of a be...

Portrayals of 1st century Galilee are quaint. Small Jewish villages dot the landscape under the watchful eyes of Roman rule in Jerusalem. The population is rural and impoverished both materially and spiritually. People work hard but chafe under the burdensome rules devised by the Pharisees and the c...

As the son of an English diplomat, I spent some years in my early teens living on the Caribbean island of Barbados. It was there that I was introduced to the game of golf. I would occasionally join my father and his friends on palm-fringed golf courses, and it didn’t take me long to get a f...

Lewis Carroll’s Alice books hold a unique place in Japanese culture. The appearance of these works coincided with a key moment in the modernity of the island nation. They went on to become central, not only to the canon of children’s literature, but literature writ large, as we...