I am by nature an introvert. I embrace the silence of my mind. When I think, I hear a voice in my head quite different from the one that I hear when I speak. When I write, the voice confidently dictates every word. But when I speak, the voice changes dramatically. Sometimes it is almost […]
Martin Luther king Jr. was a black clergy man, activist, and humanitarian his great speeches helped guide people who didn’t have full equality to freedom in the United States. Martin would not have been able to give his famous speeches that helped lead the civil rights movement without the democratic left wing of the government […]
Passing via the gates within the parkinglot close to the theater was like coming into one other world. Chaos reigned andeveryone embraced the speculation “something goes.” Music blaredfrom open vehicles as youngsters sang alongside and drank. As quickly as a beerbottle was completed it was smashed on the bottom. Individuals in garden chairsand vehicles have […]
I wish my family was never shaken to its very core. But it was. However, underneath that immense disguise was a blessing. Last year, the day after Christmas, my parents trudged into my room, tears sliding down their faces, saying, “Tressa, we need to talk to you.” That was when I learned my aunt Terri […]
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 […]
“Move,” was the first thing I heard before the rush of people filled the room. I wasn’t quite sure what was going on except for the fact that there was a canine being carried in the room. It was later in the day sometime afternoon, and normally the doctor doesn’t preform afternoon. All of a […]
The chance of winning the Lotto Jackpot is about one in fourteen million. The chance of winning the California State Lottery is one in eighteen million. And the sad reality is, that most of the lottery winners squander the opportunities that are presented to them. Many lottery winners wish they hadn’t won and hadn’t been […]
7:00am at the newest I depart Northford, CT, the place I dwell to drive thirty to forty minutes to high school. Each faculty morning my loving Dad and stepmom, wake me up. I battle by the haze of sleepiness to bathe, costume, and eat Breakfast at six in the morning, as a substitute of ten […]
“Oh my gosh, Mom! He’s drowning!” I exclaimed as my unshaved, fourteen-year-old legs propelled me toward the churning and bubbling sea. I had spied a lumpy, gray, human-shaped mass battling the water nearly fifty yards off shore. I called out to him, in fear of having his frail body gobbled up in the briny waves. […]