Taft family

was how to be a gentleman. I have large extended families, my dad 's is not quite as large as my mom 's but there are bigger age gaps. My mom 's family is huge, it goes back to my grandfather and his seven siblings and all but one of them had 2-4 kids respectively. In the current generation of the family (mine) there are 34 cousins ranging from 2 to 30 years old. Even though I like to think my families see each other more than the average family. I didn 't see the exact semantics behind…

As a child, I was a complete and total brat: spoiled, bossy, emotional, you name it, and it was probably an adjective that could be used to describe me. I always had to be the center of attention at every event or family gathering; however, no one seemed to mind because I was pretty stinking cute as well. I was the favorite niece, grandchild, cousin, and everything in-between. I may be pretty vain in admitting this, but what else would you expect from an only child? Yep, that’s right. I was an…

THE END I am the only one left. Should I cross the hard gray smooth never ending rock, which took the life of my brother and sister? There has to be a way to get to the food source that father talked about. Brother almost made it before the thing with the four rolling objects took him. With Sister it was quick. She just bounced and that was that. The end. It all started a month ago, when Father was getting ready to take us to the place that I am now. Mother and Father, (I miss…

(mother channeling her inner Lidia Bastianich) signifying that dinner was ready and headed for the table so we better be there to meet it. We would all take our places at the table either my sister or I had proudly set and listen to the baby in the family recite a Grace that she had learned in pre-school, “Thank you for the food we eat, thank you for the world so sweet, thank you for the birds that sing, thank you for everything. Amen,” before digging into a meal that, to my…

Life flies by in a blink of an eye. I was being born one day and then a senior in high school. Lot of things have changed over time. I have changed a lot personally and everything around me has to start to change. There are many great lesson to learn in life in life. These lesson have brought many adventure into my life from being attacked by a german shepherd to riding dirt bike in the Rocky Mountains. My biggest adventure started June 10, 2002. That day started something that has left me. I…

CHAPTER ONE Rickety Knees “Two decrepit trolls sipping ice tea on the seashore in their underwear stood and peered at me through the palm fronds,” Gramps told me. I gasped—shocked. Though I shouldn’t have been. I knew growing up, that Grandpa Greene was the most fascinating man breathing. He had crossed oceans with pirates and deserts on dragons, spoke at least four different languages including elfish, tinkered with magic a bit and practiced sword fighting with a gnome. “So what you do?”…

Louisiana, Oscar Chopin in 1870. For ten years, the couple lived in New Orleans, where they owned a business to make money, and it was during this time that they had six children in all. However, in 1879 their cotton factoring business failed, forcing the family to move to…

the clothes on the line. Everything seemed pretty normal, the clothes were still there, birds were chirping that’s one of my classical family stories that’s told at almost every holiday get together without fail. Most people have at least ones crazy story that they like to tell, and my family is no exception. The story that everyone on my father’s side of the family can recite word for word is the one where my grandmother lost the animals. The story sounds kind of crazy to begin with and the…

grandson tends to carry a stigma, since grandparents as primary caregivers is often due to substance abuse or incarceration of the child’s parents. This is only partly true in Walter’s case. Walter was fortunate to have his grandmother and some extended family to take care of him following the alleged neglect he suffered within the foster care system. Walter’s Aunt even discussed how important it was to Viola that Walter not “fall through the cracks” of the welfare…

Accomplishments before Death A Reflective Essay on Three Things I Want to Accomplish Before I Die “A great accomplishment shouldn 't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward,” quoted from Harvey Mackay. Everyone that has lived on this earth has always had set goals specifically for themselves. It is absolutely essential for anyone to have goals or else there is nothing to strive for in their lives. Without goals, there would be no accomplishments, and without…