Using the word “thou,” showering once a year, and dressing up at airports are all things that were once practiced religiously no longer a necessity of today’s ever-changing world. Extinction is part of the natural evolution of our world. It is the cycle that claimed the dinosaur and the dodo bird, bell bottoms and speakeasies. […]
Most students, actually – most people – go through an awkward phase in their lives. Whether it lasts through high school or stops after 6th grade, we all go through those years that we look back on and say in horror, what was I thinking? It was a time period where you wore the most […]
Generally, once I shut my eyes, Ican nonetheless see the gritty smoke and tumbling Explorer. I canstill really feel the jolt of our small automobile as my dad yanked on thesteering wheel and listen to the crashing of metal againstpavement. Even from the other aspect of the freeway, I wastoo near the scent of burnt […]
It was simple. Lift the weight and win. The only thing standing between me and my medal was my competitor and what looked like a hundred pound bar. The bar seemed to daunt me as I tried to figure out how to lift it without making a fool of myself. As I looked to the […]
An intense game of darts was at hand. That seven feet nine inches felt so much farther away than it looks. I wound up my arm, aimed for the bull’s eye, released, and hoped for the best. Not to anyone’s surprise, my dart didn’t even hit the board; in fact my dart just added another […]
This 12 months, I’m taking an exquisite English literature seminar. The instructor is good, the works are basic, and the 18 college students are shut, many people mates since elementary faculty. Two ladies – good mates of mine – led the seminar on Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin. It tells the story of two reverse […]
“How is it that a thirteen year old boy can raise more money than any of our board members?” asked the director of Camp One Step at a Time to open his board meeting. All of the board members were truly in shock at this opener. Did a thirteen year old really raise that much […]
The loose gravel of the hiking path crunched underneath our feet as our group from my paper-flat hometown gradually scaled a tall hill in the Marin Headlands Institute. Led by a camp counselor, we were an odd assortment of tired parents Helping their bedraggled children and bedraggled children Helping their tired parents. Despite the fatigue […]
After I was about 13 years previous, I discovered myself on the lounge ground of a household good friend’s home having fun with a sport of Chutes and Ladders with three pleasant kids. By the point we completed watching a film whereas having a bowl of chocolate ice cream with rainbow sprinkles and studying If […]
I went down to the dining room for dinner. The aroma of freshly prepared sausage, rolls, baked potatoes, and mixed vegetables filled the air. A typical family dinner. However, I enjoyed this meal, not at home, but with my German host family. “Komm,” said my host mother, “Abendessen ist fertig.” In English, this means, “Come. […]