Tossing my rifle a superb 30 toes into the air at all times ends effectively for me. As a spinner for my highschool’s Winter Guard, spinning is my life’s ardour. I can do something when the rifle is lofted into the air—a daring leap, a fairly arm, or perhaps a easy flip round. So long […]
Once in a while I learn a ebook that overturns my total view of the universe. A ebook that I share with everybody I do know. A ebook that I depart in cafes for strangers to learn. Ishmael: An Journey within the Thoughts and Spirit by Daniel Quinn is a kind of books. Within the […]
It is 10:30 pm, and I have far passed my bedtime. But a magazine spread on Egyptian mummification lies before me, blocking the clock from view. All I can see is what the yellow ochre light from my nightstand has to offer. My petite fingers grasp it like a lifeline. My young eyes soak in […]
“We don’t have much time, do we?” he spoke softly, staring enraptured at the inky constellations. The stars were never quite as clear as they were that fateful night; Orion’s belt outlined itself perfectly in specks of radiating plasma, forming that heroic shield —I could practically feel the stardust from trillions of years stirring in […]
I have played sports for many years and have put countless hours of work into becoming better. I believe that in order to become better at something you have to practice at it. Some people may say that practice makes perfect. I disagree because with all the years I spent in baseball and with all […]
Imagine a long sheet of pack ice, recently broken off from the main sheet, floating through the North Atlantic Ocean. On it, you see a mother polar bear looking around on all sides, trying to find her young. Looking around she sees the top of a giant square clock tower sticking out of the murky […]
Women populate our military, entertainment industry, blue-collar factory floors, boutiques, salons, and just about every other professional role in American culture. There are powerful female politicians, rock stars, and athletes. Look just about anywhere and one can easily find women filling nearly every position that modern society has to offer. Examine the same landscape from […]
My eyes lock in on the rim. The ref says, “One and one, play it off the miss.” I feel, put this one in to seal up the sport. It’s 63-60 with 18.9 seconds left. One, two, three dribbles. The shot goes up. That wasn’t a very good launch, it’s off. It rims out. The […]
I’ve the selection each morning to be blissful or prickly. This previous summer season I had a job handing out towels at an outside fountain. How laborious might it’s at hand out towels? When youngsters’s moms got here as much as me whereas I used to be working, they’d get irate with me if issues […]
The highlight of my nonexistent acting career occurred at age four. That was the summer my parents enrolled me, a puffball-haired pixie with a vivid imagination, in a week-long acting class at the local children’s theater. Our production was “The Fool,” an Indian fable about a man who is bamboozled by (and ultimately outsmarts) a […]