December 2002

What is home? By dictionary definition, a home is a person's permanent living space. By my definition, a home is where you feel secure, it’s where your belongings are, it’s where you make your childhood memories that last a lifetime. If one understands and has a place they call home, they would know that there is no concrete description of one. The answer to the question of where my home is should be quite simple yet a question so elementary always leaves me confused. I get asked this question…

What Is Home? For some people, home is the place they return to each night after they end their day at school or at work. Home is the place that has four walls, a roof, a kitchen, bathroom, and living room where they can sit down and put their meet up in front of the television as they relax from a long, stressful day. For other people, home is cannot be found in a specific physical structure or geographical location, and is, instead, a feeling of comfort and safety that a certain place…

Surviving the Dark To be a survivor a person does not need to be a giant. To be a survivor a person does not need battle scars or proof that they have fought and won. Some survivors are hard to spot and very unlikely candidates. To everyone a survivor is the obvious but that is not always the case. In truth, a survivor is someone who gets shoved down over and over again but can still get up, stand tall, brush off the filth of life, and smile. A survivor has the ability to rise up from rock…

From becoming an outsider to being an insider was a change for sure. As S.E. Hinton has once wrote, “Nothing sparkly can stay.”, is a quote I strongly agree with. Having the experience of being on both sides, I can tell that people do change; but I can also tell that being in isn’t always fun. Life has been quite a ride. I have had plenty ups and downs. The school year started out strong and exciting, I wanted to go to school because of my friends. As school went on, life did as well. I made new…

Summary Andrew Mason founded Groupon in 2006. Based on an idea popularized by Malcolm Gladwell, Mason thought that if consumers could come together as a group they would have more purchasing power to get better deals... Originally named ThePoint, Mason tried to get users to raise money for various causes. The Point could be used for anything “from boycotting a multinational company to getting 20% off a subscription to The Economist”(11-2). To reach its full potential ThePoint would need to…

'Flex my own muscles? ' he though, letting the example of the dirt falling through his fingers settle to his core. "I think I understand, I just don 't know how she will react when I won 't listen to her. I 've always done whatever she asked of me." taking a kneeling position, the bangle around his wrist slips away into wisps of softened light. The light reformed into a small ball of light that Kizen reached out to grasp, his fingers hovering over it as it spun freely inches from his palm,…

Since the beginning of time people have always lived in fear of not being the most superior person in the room. To an extent this is human nature for example: White people have always been afraid that a non-white being would become superior than them. One amazing thing happened to the world over time everybody in the USA became equals, people’s right’s no longer depended on what their skin color was. Also being afraid of someone doing better than you is part of human nature as much as we don’t…

Ever since I was little I always wondered why I was never good enough for anything. I felt like I was not good enough for my family, and I still believe this to this day. My family treats me so different than they do to anyone else. I know I was never good enough in school because no one ever wanted me in their class. I strived for straight “A”s and sometimes that just was not enough. I wanted all the extra credit and higher grades than anyone. I made it a mission to do everything that I could…

Although my past relationship was not “Facebook Official” as we call it nowadays and we never really went on “dates,” I still consider this a relationship to myself. There was a physical connection that I felt towards this person, but I wonder if he felt the same connection that I did. Life in a small town… I grew up in the small town of Shenandoah – one of those small towns where everyone knows everyone, word gets around and rumors spread like wildfire. Even though my “relationship” was kept…

I decided to write about my relationship with my dad in this post because Father’s Day just passed and because I’ve already made a post about the incredible bond I have with my dad. In that post I mentioned that he was away in Korea when I was born and I didn’t get to see him until I was 7 months old. My mother, who was only 22 at the time, had a lot of responsibility taking care of the three of us who were all under 3 years old. When my dad came home he took over the caregiving duties for me…