“You can’t be a vet,” Nancy, my riding coach, said. “You won’t have time to ride, and you won’t like it.” My initial response was, why? Having my coach, of all people, tell me I couldn’t pursue my passion was the hardest thing. My heart dropped, and the lump in my throat grew bigger. “Because […]
They say that there are five people you meet in heaven. I never heard anyone say anything about hell. Why then, would anyone ask you to write about the three people you would meet if you decided to take a vacation to hell? I mean, of course, you would visit hell for the resorts and […]
Ever since I was a little boy my mother would take me to her garden in the backyard and I would sit with her as she would maintain her garden. I used to listen intently as she would teach me about growing plants. With a multitude of plants, my mom’s garden was an oasis of […]
Question: How will you enrich our community? Our Time to Shine The crowd went silent and the announcer spoke. All fifteen of us run out onto that ugly blue mat spiriting to the crowd. Our first time going to a national competition and our faces appeared as if we had just gotten out of the […]
He never complained. He loved to make people smile, he loved his family, he loved his darling black lab Magic, and he loved watching the fireworks at the Fourth of July picnic. He was an amazing artist and my best friend. Some people are hard to love, but my cousin, Scott, wasn’t. He was born […]
I was curled up in the middle of my bed, a blanket clutched between clawed fists, sobs wracking my frame with so much force that the headboard clacked against the wall. In my head, a voice kept screaming, over and over, “Why me?” My angry fingers kneaded the unfortunate blanket, as if trying to pull […]
Every person has a dream, but not every dream is turned into a reality, because people do not believe in themselves. I am different. If I put my mind to it, I can achieve it. One day I will be a restaurateur. I love cooking. I want my ideas to shine through and my voice […]
During my 3rd grade year, my parents divorced each other. Me, my mom, and my little brother moved to a new house across town, which meant I had to switch schools. I did not want to be bullied and I tried for the longest time to get my mom to say I could stay at […]
It was arduous to just accept, however the dreaded day had lastly arrived. I nonetheless bear in mind the tears welling up in my six-year-old sister’s eyes as she seemed across the empty closet in surprise. The area as soon as stuffed together with his garments now held solely loneliness and sorrow. This little little […]
There are quite a few nights where I am lying in my bed, freezing, partially under the covers, unable to shut my mind off long enough to find some sleep. I’m high off exhaustion, and my mind is flipping around different thoughts and events from throughout the day. My mind spills into thought processes where […]