Twelve Days of Christmas

be found and had not been home for four days. I stayed up late that night expecting her to come in with some wild excuse, but I was going to tell her I wanted to live with grandma. She did not come home, in fact, I must have expected it deep down inside since I knew where all my sister Christmas gifts were and I stayed up late and made sure everything was wrapped and under the tree. I thought surely, she will be home for Christmas morning, but the next day we got up and no mom, no food, and no…

My Guitar Early one Christmas morning in 1976 towards the end of Elvis’s life, career, I was gifted my very first acoustic guitar. Maybe it was because I was born in Tupelo, Mississippi some thirty-six years after Elvis Presley, that made me suited to play and sing with a guitar. Or perhaps because I was born on the same day as the legendary Johnny Cash, exactly thirty- nine years later, to the day, that I would inherit the intense desire to play, write, and sing with a guitar. After an…

“Family is everything.” I am not sure that I’ve ever heard any of my relatives utter this phrase, but I know that is a sentiment shared by all of them. To call my family “big” would be an understatement. My mother was the seventh of the twelve children born to my grandparents Hugh and Roberta. She married my father in the 80’s and they had ten children, I am the third oldest. On my mother’s side there are more than sixty grandchildren. My dad is fourth of six children born too my grandparents…

There are four season that change throughout the twelve month that are in a year. Each part of the world is effected differently according to where they are on the map. These seasons can be predicted by following previous years and looking at the months that are on the calendar. In the past people have performed different rituals according to the season but nowadays people are more likely to think of a holiday and celebrate that rather than the season itself. However there are still many rituals…

Free puppies There is no such thing as a free puppy. My husband passed twelve years ago and my sister talked me into adopting a puppy. At the time, I was unable to make myself stay at home, the house was too empty, so I decided to adopt two pups. I didn’t want them to be lonely while I was gone. They were brothers, chiweenies, half weenie dog and half Chihuahua. I named them Tigger and Riley. I took them home with me and soon discovered when I took them out to pee, they would run, and I…

It is common for families, especially in America, to do a short prayer before they eat their important meals such as Christmas of Thanksgiving. In this sense, my family is the same as many other typical American families. In truth, my family is an ideal representation of “the typical American family.” I spent the first twelve years of my life in a suburban development in California where my family of married parents and two kids was only one of many similar looking families, and our appearance…

been really busy filming is what you were saying. AVH: Oh, this summer has been nuts. This summer, I filmed for four weeks on an action movie, and we were doing night shoots as well, so I was on set from 3:30 P.M. to 4:30 A.M. every day, and then we would go back to day shoots. And so for awhile there, I had something that was very similar to jet lag during that time.…

and although it may not seem like it in any way shape or form, has religious influences. The first day of Mardi Gras is January sixth, but that date is also the Twelfth Night, a Christian holiday that comes twelve days after Christmas. The twelve days are a time for people to celebrate and feast, and the Twelfth Night is usually the climax of that tomfoolery. In New Orleans, we changed this day to be the beginning of a celebration that last around two weeks and called it Mardi Gras. These two…

trying to remember I cannot access how I felt about being cared for by someone like that. I remember as a young child and it was Christmas when I went down to Joyce Silva’s house. We lived in a trailer park that was at one end of Jean Ave and Joyce was a little girl my age who lived in a two-story house at the other end of Jean Ave. What I remember is a huge Christmas tree that touched the ceiling; both the tree and the house were covered in beautiful lights. Then there were…

times when they did inspections. He had many great friends while he was in the service, and he still talks to many of them often. He visits many of his old friends during the Christmas season, and he also sometimes goes back to the base. He once went back to the base with many of his old friends when they were having Blue Jean Day. One story he remembers from his time in the service, is when he was out of step during one drill practice, and he had to march out to the side of the flight in front…