Clear up to our move Pam begged to remain behind and hold over the rent, after all
Clear up to our move Pam begged to remain behind and hold over the rent, after all
Patsey tried to explain that she was only getting soap from said neighbor’s wife, but Epps refused to believe her. Epps ordered for her to be tied down and stripped. He then grabbed a…
The past two weeks I have worked at northshore maternity and national womens community midwives. During my week at northshore it was incredibly busy and understaffed. I also remember thinking at times, where has the midwifery gone? We were so busy rushing around trying to provide safe and quality care to the women, but that fact is I feel we were too busy, with too larger case loads to provide true midwifery care. I cared for many day 1-2 sections, women with large blood losses requiring blood transfusions, a secondary PP and there was a woman with confirmed H1N1 on the ward who was unstable – but HDU wouldn’t allow her to be transferred around, and many other complex situations that really challenged my competence, knowledge and practice reasoning.…
Throughout this semester, I have been given the opportunity to meet and begin a counselor to client relationship with Feng. At the same time, I have been given the opportunity to play the role of Ken who has been visiting a counselor. This role playing opportunity gave me real life experience to develop my professional role as a counselor and social worker. The sessions gave me opportunity how I can use myself in therapy and enabled me to attain knowledge regarding the many layers clients bring to therapy. Working with Feng, and acting as Ken revealed many dynamics that can occur within counseling sessions.…
The trips were unplanned, as I have traveled to 13 different countries in four continents of the world. At least that was something to brag about after returning home from six years of military service. I would talk about these moments in a heartbeat when topics related to travel surface in conversations. Remembering and reliving those moments brings great fulfillment. Usually, there's a moment in life where I experience home in places I've visited.…
On a snowy Christmas day at Sunrise Peak, there is a whiteout at the acme; snow is falling heavily, visibility is low, and the wind is unforgiving as it clashes against my bare face. I slowly start my descent down the mountain. As I begin to cut back and forth in a comfortable manner on my board I slip up. I try to turn to follow the slopes path, but I turned too sharply. The front of my board digs into the snow abruptly and causes me to plunge forward.…
All around me I can feel the excitement. The smell of a barbeque lingers enticingly in the summer air. Patiently, my mom, sisters, grandmother, aunt, cousins, and I stand in a crowd with around two hundred other people, each eager to see the relative they have been separated from for nine months. I have warm tears of joy rushing down my face, the only way I have seen my dad in the latest month is through a computer screen. It has been to long since I have felt his embracive arms wrapped around me in a warm, assuring hug.…
For as long as I can remember, as a child I was raised to believe that a man should be the king of his castle. When I was five years old, that statement became a fable to me. I felt the Judas kiss the day my dad left. His reign has ended as king of his castle. He relinquished his crown and abandoned his kingdom.…
When I got to high school it was basically the same thing. I stopped playing sports, though just because of too much drama and I was tired of it. I tried to maintain above a C average in all my classes and even got better at not being so shy, but I was still pretty shy. I was still pretty shy, but I think I will always be that way. I still didn’t have many friends but, the friends I did have, I’m grateful that I had them and that they were willing to be my friend.…
The food became a burden to even look at. I began smelling unfamiliar aromas. I felt like I lost my control and I couldn’t resist from eating it. Once we got through security, I could feel the warm air of the summer day embracing me.…
After a long seven-hour car ride, we were finally here, in the Upper Peninsula. Looking out the window of our truck, I knew it was truly different than the big city I grew up in. Not many kids get to experience what happened to me the summer before my second-grade year, but it definitely changed my life for the better. When we first pulled into our new driveway, I could not believe what I was seeing. I can remember seeing a little farm house with about five horses in our backyard.…
A week into Fall, and the temperature was still lulling at 90 degrees, like the mosquitos that swayed comfortably above the bayou that ran for miles outside my English II class. The bayou would eventually diverge by my neighborhood. In class, the philosophical discussion on the Power of One by Bryce Courtenay also diverged. If Peekay could reach compos mentis (full command of one’s mind) after years of training, epitomized by a drunken bar fight, when would we ambitious students scrawled across plastic chairs and creaking wooden tables, reach compos mentis? Was it in adulthood, after college, or after the birth of our first child?…
One of the first times that I had ever spoken in front of a large audience, was when I was six. I was the angel in our Christmas Eve nativity service at church. When someone had asked me if I wanted to do it, I was pretty hesitant, but still decided to do it. I worked really hard to memorize the lines and get into character, but as soon as I got onto the stage, I froze. I was not physically able to move.…
While reading the nightly devotional to my boys, ages 8 and 12, my youngest crawls out of bed, goes over to his closet, and I instantly snap "Spiderman, Get. Back. To. Bed. Now.…
As a child in a large Asian family, nothing that I have done has ever been good enough. My grandfather is a wealthy, successful man, who rose up from nothing as a new American immigrant to where he is today. Thus, my mother has always felt that she was in his shadow. Because she had children early, she felt stuck in her life, never believing that she could move forward. As a result, she pushed her dreams and aspirations of moving out of the shadow onto me early on.…
Other activities this summer included a new-found sport, competitive mounted orienteering. It’s a treasure hunt on horseback. The idea is to use clues and compasses to find designated objects the fastest. Dave and I aren’t fast, but we had fun doing this a couple times. We also took a trip with the horses down to see my Mom on the farm.…