The Next Time

habit rather than being erratic. My next short-term goal is to form the habit of taking a walk every day and enjoy the…

the medical field. Since my mid-teens, I have worked with machines to further the aims of the companies I have worked for. It has been satisfying for me because the challenges and puzzles I had to solve, and the enjoyment I derived from that. But as time passed, and I entered my mid-forties, I started to see a kind of complacency and dissatisfaction beginning to develop within myself. Fueled from boredom and a lack of meaningful challenges, and a growing lack of patience with some of my…

As time is progressing, abuse is becoming more common. People in society these days tend to think that domestic abuse is over exaggerated, not knowing how important it really is. Four years ago, in the middle of July it was going to be my first time going to the beach. I was so excited; I 've always dreamed about playing in the waves, and laying out in the hot summer sand. My boyfriend told me that he had the perfect beach day set up for me. Right before leaving for the beach a simple question…

He had had enough. So, he pulled out a gun and put it to her head. She began crying because she didn’t know what else to do. He asked her again, “Where did you put the money?” However this time she didn’t reply. She just sat there bawling her eyes out. Right about that time, Helen and Francine bust through the door with guns pointed at The Lonely One and Cartavius. In unison, they both shouted, “Drop the gun!” Instead of dropping the gun, The Lonely One went behind Lavinia and…

forever? "It will be a good experience!" My mother told me this hundreds of times before I went; however, I was still on the fence about going on the trip. My church had planned this trip for months. I was sixteen years old and had never attended a mission trip with my youth group before. I was worried that I would not enjoy it. That is a reason that I was hesitant to go. I did not like leaving home for long periods of time, because I like being able to come home to my own bed every night. After…

when he tried throwing her over his shoulder, she punched him across the face and then she took off running. The Lonely One fell to the ground, but got up quickly and chased Lavinia. He caught her very quickly and he hit her in the stomach multiple times until she fell to the ground hitting her head on the sidewalk, once again knocking her unconscious. The Lonely One dragged her back to the store and took her…

was a mandatory orientation course, so I automatically thought it would be a waste of time. However, I was curious about what the class would entail, so I asked one of my friends who took the course his freshman year. He said it was mostly group activities/assignments, and I would have to go around campus and take pictures of the places I went. He left out just how thought-provoking the lectures would be. My all-time favorite lecture in the class was mindfulness. I enjoyed doing the Go Picture…

trip.It took us around 10 hours to get there with all the traffic. Since it was going to be such a long drive, we left at midnight. So that we could drive through the night to make the drive seem shorter. We ended up getting there at like 8 or 9 the next morning. All we wanted to do was hit the slopes, my brother Bodie and I already knew how to ski, so we just went and did our own thing. While my Cousins were in a class to learn how to ski. Once my they got done with the class my cousin Beau and…

practice involves my number one hobby which is playing the violin. This takes place in a mariachi group here in the community of San Bernardino. Not to mention, this community of practice has been expertise within my community for a long period of time. I’ve been part of it since it established in February 2009. This mariachi group is involved with people that want to strive for a better performance and a fundamental achievement of better musicians. We take our weekly practices very serious and…

Have you ever wondered will today be the day that you leave this earth? Will I ask myself this question every day I wake up and walk the streets of Lafayette La. I was asked to write a reflective paper on a single topic the question was “If I could change one thing in Lafayette Louisiana what would it be? For me that was a hard subject but I found myself asking the same question over and over again but I always ended up with the same answers “Gun control, Texting while driving and just simply…