Birthdays

Today is November 13th, 1992. My brother was born yesterday. The brother I didn’t want. I had demanded an abortion the day my dad let it slip they were expecting. I knew what the future held. I was already trying to keep the house running and care for my twin sisters as my mother sank further and further into the depression that has lingered since the girls were born in 1984. It’s Friday night and my father has not come home. It’s late, the phones at the hospital are off and I can’t reach my…

remembers Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister. The following Lemmy tribute was written by Lloyd Kaufman: writer, director, producer, co-founder and president of TROMA Entertainment for Girls and Corpses Magazine. December 30th, 2015 was my saddest birthday. It was my 70th birthday and I was with the Guna Indians in very remote San Blas Islands when the news of Lemmy Kilmister’s death reached me. The loss of Motörhead legend Lemmy, on December 28th, 2015, had a significant impact on myself and Troma…

School Should Start a Hour Later. By: Chloé Grimm Does your mom wake you up every morning and say, “Get up, time for school.” Or your brother or sister opens the door really loud at 6:30 in the morning? Well mine does and I am NOT a morning person. That is why I think school should start a hour later. One reason, I think school should start a hour later, is that you will have more time to sleep. You should be able to sleep in because when you do your work might be tired and you will…

Lucas is a good person in school because I haven’t ever see him in trouble in school. He tries to be funny, and Lucas jokes around with himself in science class. That is where I see him talk a lot, and I don’t think a lot of people listen to his jokes, but I listen to some of them. He is a real genius in players and sports. His favorite team is the Carolina Panthers, and he practically knows everyone who plays on the team. He looks very dedicated to what he does. Even though he likes his team,…

understand the difference between making good and bad choices but, there will always be that one situation. If you don’t do something it’s bad but if you do, then it 's still bad. That happened to me once and I hated it. I was invited to my best friends birthday party on the same day of the club playoffs for soccer.My best friend Turi was turning 16. I knew she would never forgive me if I did not go but, I made a commitment to my team when I was voted team captain. Both events were important…

anxieties are also evident. One example of this is when Charlie is faced with his upcoming birthday, “I’m really glad that Christmas and my birthday are soon because that means they will be over soon because I can already feel myself going to a bad place I used to go... But now I’m trying not to think about it too much because that makes it worse.” (Stephen Chbosky, 74). Charlie has this anxiety because his birthday is Christmas eve, and many years ago his Aunt Helen went to get him a present…

from school one day in March of my freshman year and my Mother greeted me at the door with a hug. I wished her a happy birthday, for it was the day, and went to my room to get ready for dinner with my Parents and Paternal Grandparents when my Mother came into my room. She had told me that her parents had paid her a visit to the house that day. They came to wish her a happy birthday and to catch up with her, although their stay was short and unwelcomed. When she asked them to leave, they did but…

A gift is given to people on their Birthdays and they are usually good gifts, but this gift that I gave was better than good. The gift I gave spectacular. The story can not start when I gave the gift, so we have to go back to when I was in Kindergarten to understand the real sentimental value that made this gift so great. I was five years old and my sister, Letti, was four. In kindergarten once a week I would go to the school library with my class and get a book to take home. I took home that…

A date of celebration that is far more outstanding by anything we had ever experienced as a family unit to date. The date of this celebration is October the 1st. “Is it a Birthday?” you may ask. While it is not a Birthday of any human living in the Buckley household, it can be considered a Birthday of sorts. It is the Birthday of our better life. You see, this October 1st will mark three years since we moved to the city of Cresco, Iowa. Some people move around all the time and would tell me “It…

Religion is a matter of personal belief, faith, or dogma. The majority of religions are centered on the existence of one or more gods. The existence of God, or multiple gods, is a priori truth- no observation can show that God does not exist. However, there is also no observation that prove that God does exist. This dilemma has driven many philosophers to propose numerous arguments against and for the existence of God. Of these, The Design Argument presented by William Paley. The Design Argument…