Marana, Arizona- it was a hot summer in 1982, surrounded by desert sands, cactus and Palo Verde trees where two young children of a ranch hand whose curiosity guided them on their lessons in freedom. The morning sun rises and a warm breeze is in the air, the horses are saddled and ready for the new day adventure. A refreshed brown and tan Quarter horse named Ms. Barb is waiting patiently for me, and a paint Palomino horse named ironically Paint is waiting for my brother, Mark. We will rise up to mount on the horses back and venture into the desert for today’s exploration.…
Emotions including desolation, grief and loneliness were experienced on Memorial Day, 2015. Grief spread throughout my house after the news that my Gramma passed away had reached it. My Mother, Father, two sisters, Dick, who was my Gramma’s partner for 18 years, and many family members all had to cope with this feeling of sadness. When my Mom got the horrible news, I was the first to know. I don’t know if you will believe me, but the only reason I was awake was because of a bad gut feeling.…
Persevering to Fight for Loved Ones Fighting and protecting the people you love needs a lot of persevering. In The Call of the Wild, Buck gets saved by his last owner and Buck fights to protect him, using his love for the owner. Buck saves the owner's life more times than he can count. He also saved him from debts. In reality, my nana protects my mom, aunt, and her dad with her courage to keep them safe.…
We went to Las Vegas and we walked to the back side of the hotel. My family walked out and I froze because there was a zip line right above my head! Then my siblings and I said “Please, please, please, can we go ziplining?” we yelled.” “Yes.”…
She told me that Uncle Jimmy was being rushed to the hospital due to a major tear in his aorta. We had to go and pick up my 2 little brothers and…
I heard her gasp and say "this can't actually be happening". Next thing I knew, the phone was ringing. It was my father. He called to tell her he was leaving work and hoped to be home soon. The only other thing I remember from that day was when my father made it home, he gave all three of us a huge hug, my mother was crying but my brother and I didn't really know what was going on, we were just happy our dad was home…
One morning, sunny day I was ready to go to Kansas City not expecting anything ever bad would happen. Everyone packed up and we headed towards Kansas City, we were going to visit my cousins. When we got there we got our stuff and unpacked upstairs in the guest rooms, my older cousin left to party the night before, but he didn’t come back. After a while of talking the kids got bored and ran up the stairs to the rooms where everyone was either playing games or on their phones texting. Then out of nowhere my younger cousin Matthew who was 1 at the time said “Tag you're it you can’t find me uncle.”…
My summer was as terrible as cancer. That's right, as terrible as cancer! Literally. Here are just a few reasons why my summer was horrible. My great grandma died of cancer, my dad had a heart attack.…
“ BANG!” I slammed the door shut hesitating to start a new life if the place I missed very deeply. I was threshing the moments at mars as the shuttle started to blast off. The shuttle wasn’t so bad, it was big, the colors inside were all gray, black, and white. I was pretty lonely in the shuttle all I did was sleep , read,eat the food in the boxes, and think about Nana.…
I lost my dad on a Thursday, early in the morning, on February 26, 2004, two months before my fifth birthday. We received a phone call that had my mom devastated. I was too young to know what a loss in the family is at that moment, but I knew something was wrong. That day was so vivid, I remember there was so much crying and people hugging each other like their life depended on it. Many people were coming in and out of the big bright white front door every second.…
There has been many difficult obstacles in my life were it could be hard for me to just talk about one thing. Not knowing where you would start can also be difficult. Never let situations bring you down. The beginning of my life was a rocket. It all started when my mom had my oldest sister on an accident and on September 18, 1997 I was born into this world, not knowing what it had in store for me.…
When the funeral finally came around, we sat at the front of the church. The coffin was taken in while the first psalm was being sung. I couldn 't look at it. Looking at it just made it feel real, that he was really gone. My sister who was bundling up all her emotions suddenly burst into tears.…
The day my grandma passed away is a day I can’t ever forget. It was the day my life changed drastically. She was the woman that raised me while my own parents couldn’t. She was there for me growing up and at the time, I didn’t realize how important she was or how important any of my family members were. It changed my perspective on life and I felt like a part of my innocence was taken away from me.…
I awoke quickly in the pitch black bedroom from a sound down the hall, my best friend laying beside me still in a deep sleep. As I lay still, (deathly still, deathly quiet, lifeless) I think to my self, “ am I hearing things, have I gone crazy?” (delirious, insane) I hear the noise coming from down the hall, I jump up and cautiously walk toward the bedroom door, the slightest light shining off from my alarm clock is glaring threw the dark (Lightless) bedroom.…
October 4th, 1996, I remember going to school as if it were another day, I arrived to school early as I often did and would play with my friends until school began at 8:00am. I was only 6 years old at the time and though memories of the past have become faint, I remember the day my little brother died like it was yesterday. The day would continue to go on as normal until around 10:00am, when I was called to the office, upon my arrival my uncle was waiting there for me and nothing seemed to be wrong and being a young child I was just happy to get out of school early. We’d end up spending most of the day together, not once did it ever occur to me that something might have happened or why was my uncle courting me around. At the conclusion of our…