If is a word of the past and myself in general doesn’t really like the word itself. It reminds about the past and what I could have done to do something better and also makes me think about what would have happened if I did something, or if I had tried harder, or if I […]
“Bend your fingers back as far as you can. Stretch your arms out like a bird. Open your mouth.” This is the best doctor’s appointment ever. I had not received any shots, and in my ten-year-old mind, that constituted a successful visit The Italian side of my family hadn’t seen anybody who was as skinny […]
Atop the current of the lake, a young woman zoomed on a gleaming red jet ski. Her long, brown hair flew behind her, strong and full of life. One year later, her now limp hair surrendered to radiation and fell to a cold, ceramic floor. Despite the untrodden path set before her, she persevered fearlessly. […]
Any individual, common or uncommon, who obtains the unlucky blessing of getting siblings most probably acknowledges the complexity of American household dynamics which can be hooked up amongst them. Normally, households are something however simply comprehended in a single’s thoughts. Due to this, it’s vital to acknowledge and establish these alienable creatures everyone knows as […]
It’s a story. Not a simple one. Not an attractive one. But, it’s my story. I think I should tell it. But with the story comes a problem. No matter the details I use, the expertise I put behind my words, there is a risk of making it just a story. It’s not just a […]
There are many people in my life that have had a significant influence on me. But there is one I’ll never forget. It was my freshman year of high school when I first met her: Ms. Nurse (my Spanish teacher) from Trinidad and Tobago. She spoke the language faster than I could even comprehend. Instantly, […]
“When I read, I’m taken away,” my eight-year-old hand scripted in an early attempt at poetry. It is true that, as with Sara Crewe, The Little Princess with a big imagination, most of my seventeen years have been spent somewhere other than the world inhabited by my contemporaries. However, far from living another’s story, I […]
The Question Assignment “wish to come Help me follow?” is so imbedded in my head that I couldn’t neglect it even when I needed to. My step brother Bobby, used to ask me this Question Assignment every single day after college. On daily basis I’d have the identical reply, “YES!” I stated with a lot […]
The tragic novel Hamlet written by the well known author William Shakespeare has turned a lot of heads and people ever since the play came out have had a lot of options and contradictions about the play. Some people while reading the play don’t get all the points that Shakespeare was trying to make. When […]
A black stool, as black because the night time sky, stood alone. There was nothing particular about it that anybody might see. It was merely an inexpensive black stool, however it was not abnormal to me. To me it symbolized one thing particular in my life: time spent with my brother. Our household bought the […]