As I peered down into the round body of the microscope, I discovered myself gazing nothing. Once more. My eye ached from squinting. Perhaps I wasn’t lower out for this kind of factor. Then, as I anxiously fiddled with the black knob, a blurry dot slowly shifted into focus. I had discovered it: a grayish […]
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 […]
Surfing With Death by Michael Miller, Bay Shore, NYOver the past five years many people, places and things have influenced me. One particular experience gave me a renewed zest for living and a different perspective on life.It was during the summer of 1995. I rose from a long sleep to find the sun gleaming in […]
Crunch. My coronary heart stopped beating. My legs gave out, my head fell again, and my physique went limp. I fell to the bottom oblivious to what had occurred. I lay on the chilly floor of the world, feeling relaxed; a serene expertise that was lower quick by an immense surge of ache. Regaining the […]
“Whose footprints are these?” “What is this piece of paper that has baby footprints marked in ink with the name “Roopmathi” on the top?” My dad’s face froze, and my mom’s jaw dropped as they saw me holding the paper. I asked,“Who is Roopmathi and why do you have her footprints?” Waiting for their response, […]
I’ve been suspended over the rolling hills of Poland by nothing however paper-thin, see-through mesh netting. I’ve squeezed my method via Buddha’s nostril to carry luck and luck to my household. I’ve in contrast ice cream from eight completely different nations, and located that my favourite is hidden down a slim side-street in Vienna. Nonetheless, […]
The day started out like the rest in Ecuador. We woke up early, ate a rushed breakfast, packed medicine and raced to the buses before they left. Because of the steep mountainous terrain, it felt like we were riding through the rain forest in Jeeps. When we were near the clinic, kids lined up along […]
My father always said, “You can’t stop the rain from falling, but you can choose to use an umbrella.” I figured he got it from a book…maybe an e-mail or a fortune cookie. But I never got the meaning of it until I went to high school. From pre-school to eighth grade, I attended a […]
Rising up in a Latino family, I used to be taught each English and Spanish, and I used to be fluent in each. My mother and father would use English and Spanish in the identical sentence, and I developed an ear for thick accents and blended verbiage. After I entered my teen years, nevertheless, I […]
The Atlantic, what had beforehand been a predominately dormant ocean, erupted with a flurry of exercise throughout the latter portion of the 15th century C.E. with the first voyages of Christopher Columbus. With these got here an onslaught of intercontinental commerce, starting, clearly, with the Columbian change in the early 1500’s C.E. The expanse of […]