My niece Nevaeh is the most important person in my life. She brightens my day when it’s at it’s worst. She also knows how to put a smile on my face. Nevaeh I was the last one to find out. it was a sunday night and Isaac (my sister’s husband) and his parents came over […]
Thirteen years ago, she hurled a blue plastic Fisher Price horseshoe at my nose to see if it would dangle delicately on my face. I, defenseless in my Kanga-Rock-A-Roo, was unaware of the potential danger that could have marred my little body. Weapon in hand, she squinted her eyes and adjusted her body as if […]
Wow! Life is so short. Who knew? People constantly told me this, I thought I knew what they meant. Yes, it is difficult to perceive and more than we can grasp but, that is the value of life. Truth is, I had no idea. Life is so delicately fragile and can just be snatched away […]
PROMPT: The 18th century French thinker Denis Diderot mentioned, “Solely passions, nice passions can elevate the soul to nice issues.” Describe considered one of your passions and replicate on the way it has contributed to your private development. After I was somewhat lady, my pack of 24 brilliant Crayola crayons was probably the most treasured […]
The Life of a Spectator I grew. I grew up out of the mud and into the daylight, the air, the land. I sprouted leaves and buds; my roots grew deep. I knew the names of the flowers beside me, and will establish the calls of the birds. I used to be transplanted at some […]
Each fall 1000’s of highschool seniors stare blankly into their laptop display screen and ponder the identical factor: school essays. The tales of triumph, the tales of hardship, and the tales of serious occasions start to circulation from college students’ brains into their computer systems one story at a time. Nonetheless, what they don’t notice […]
An interview with Bill Fitzgerald, a college freshman. What are some differences between high schooland college life? The main difference is the incredible increasein free time. In high school, every day was a constant grind and I neverhad any free time. In college I have a surplus. Instead of classes sixhours a day, they take […]
In the balmy summer night air, a shadowed figure sat motionless. As I approach, I see the person’s profile; she is looking up at the stars. It is a common activity for us, to just sit and watch the stars shining upon the grass surrounding our home for the last month. I come up and […]
Ardrey Kell. Those two words, synonymous with new school,O made my stomach turn. Switching schools, in the middle of high school, was a nightmare. But in one of the nationOs fastest growing cities, Charlotte, North Carolina, I had no choice. New schools were being hastily scraped together everywhere, and I was re-zoned to a new […]
Fingers shaking. Twenty eyes watching. Hands shaking. Forehead sweating. Silence. They are waiting. Hands trembling. Heart beating fast. Tempo. Sounds. Rests. Mistakes. Those are the things that ran through my mind when I first performed in front of an audience. I was nervous and there was no escape! The piano was probably ten meters away […]