I highly recommend a subscription to The Sun Magazine. I've subscribed since 1999 and read each issue practically cover to cover.

You can view parts of The Sun online (as PDF) and I just realized that they regularly include my two consistently favorite sections, Readers Write and Sunbeams. For Sunbeams there's a URL naming convention such that you could browse through several months of them:
http://www.thesunmagazine.org/343_Beams.pdf
Replace 343 with smaller numbers, down to 319, when they started publishing online.
If you like what you read, be sure to subscribe. The ad-free paper edition is beautiful, includes photographs, poems, essays, short stories and an interview each month, and more importantly, The Sun needs to be sustained (I donate to them each year as well, viewing them as a precious and financially fragile part of the ecosystem of human discourse).