Pumpkin

It was Thanksgiving Day around two o’clock in the afternoon. The house was starting to smell wonderful because my mom was making vegetarian Sheppard’s pie. And they house still smelled slightly like pumpkin pie that was made earlier in the day. Our small apartment was finally clean so that family could come over for dinner. The front door was opened and the fall air was sweeping through the house, cooling off the hot air from the oven. When someone knocked on the front door I answered it. It…

parents did not name me after anyone, they named me after a city in Syria called Mari. I am glad they did this because I want my own name and not one that directly came from someone else. I have many nicknames, but the main ones are “honey bunny” and “pumpkin.” Those are names that my immediate family members call me. My name is often mispronounced when first read. Many people pronounce it as “am-er-ee”instead of “uh-mar-ee”. I agree it is harder to pronounce than my middle…

friends and family; we have nice traditions for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve/Day. Yum! I can smell the Cajun flavored turkey baking in the oven; see the cheese bubble on the fresh hot baked macaroni and cheese, the lovely smells of the pumpkin pies. Thanksgiving is here, cars pulling in the drive way, dishes clingy, chaotic noise from the children running wild and free, such…

because they are in a rush. However, at the Middleton Dunkin Donuts, there is a true community of coffee drinker. At first glance, there are customers in and out getting coffee and donuts. Immediately after entering, the smell of the seasonal pumpkin flavors was noticeable. There were people standing waiting for their orders to be taken. Some people just come in to get their coffee and leave. While others take time out of their day to sit and enjoy their coffee. They sit at small brown…

Mitchell, Georgia has a population of about 250; five being my family. I have lived in Mitchell for my whole life. Love floods the atmosphere with every step on Main Street. From trick-or-treating, to yard sales, to the annual Mitchell Spring Fest, the city houses countless family traditions. The tattered, elderly buildings and what seems to be ancient railroad tracks tell their own stories and prove the city has a heart of its own. With a blink, Mitchell would be missed entirely, but within the…

First published in 1820, the story follows the encounter between schoolteacher Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, likely Ichabod's rival Brom Bones in disguise. The use of a pumpkin as a weapon by the Headless Horseman has contributed to the pumpkin's association with Halloween. Irving's classic may have played a role in elevating the jack-o'-lantern to a prominent symbol of Halloween, alongside black cats and witches. American…

writers. The poll indicated that 52 percent of respondents to the study identified as bisexual, lesbian, or gay (Bury 2005). Additionally, tumblr user centrumlumina recently conducted a massive online poll of users from popular fanficton site “AO3”. In response to the question “What sexuality(s) do you identify as?”, only 29% of 4,000 of responders identified as heterosexual. Furthermore, in response to the question “Do you identify as belonging to a gender, sexual, or romantic minority?”, 53%…

Many people came to the New World looking for new possibilities, freedom, and a place to settle and become an established, respectable land. Starting in the early 1600’s, the Virginia Company wanted a settlement in America. The Chesapeake colonies, including Virginia and Maryland first established the town of Jamestown. “Jamestown was intended to become the core of a long-term settlement effort, creating new wealth for the London investors and recreating English society in North America”…

218 Blenheim Road was a minacious husk of what once was a home. The family that had lived there last had long moved to Iowa or Wisconsin or some other boring Midwestern state. Nobody remembered who they were anyway. The house loomed above the sidewalk like a dried up animal skeleton. Its lifeless, shattered widows glared down at any passerby; as if the house itself was watching people walk past, noticing their steps getting just a little bit quicker once they entered its gloomy stretch of…

Hyrule, a kingdom that has endured the test of time. It's been through many changes throughout the ages, evolving and ever expanding its rich lore and history. But sometimes I sit back and wonder, who set up the foundation for this kingdom to prosper like we know it today? Now before we go any further, yes of course it was the people of Skyloft that founded Hyrule from what we know, but how exactly did it go down? Who set the ground work up for the relgion, geogrphy, economy, language, and…