When life offers you 100 causes to cry, present life that you’ve a thousand causes to smile. Unknown I really like this quote. With its give attention to braveness and self-discipline, it’s one thing I’ve triumphantly come to personal during the last two years. My childhood has not been idyllic: I’ve suffered monumental loss and […]

300 steps later, I’d finally arrived at the top. I began to hate the thick, baggy khakis and was having trouble adjusting to the constant itch of the lanyard around my neck. I hardly noticed the sun beating down on me as I heard the splash of water and children screaming, echoing off the massive […]

I was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome at six years old. It was a struggle both before and after the diagnosis. For people who do not know what Tourette syndrome is, it’s a neurological disorder that causes me to make loud sounds, have spasms and say or do things that I don’t mean. For example, I […]

Music Makes Sense by N. S., Cranston, RI To most, those small black dots and lines on paper seem overwhelming and confusing, but to me they make perfect sense. Although complicated and challenging at times, music is a part of who I am. Between the music I play in the band room and the music […]

The sounds of bats cracking and overbearing dad and mom screaming surrounded me on my stroll to the quads. A cumbersome pink bag weighing me down due to my fragile measurement was the first indication that I used to be new to this sport. It solely acquired worse as I entered the dugout and unzipped […]

The biggest problem that this world is facing is the huge gap between the wealth of people living within the same countries. This gap is demonstrated through the massive amount of differences between the lifestyles, access to medicine, and opportunities of the rich and successful upper class and the lowest class of poor or homeless […]

I see only steps. My chest is heaving and my breath shakes, hyperventilating at a rapid pace. Ten more steps, move girl move! My legs protest, refusing to listen to the signals my brain sends commanding them to lift and proceed forward. A rough hand reaches down pulling me up a little higher. Five more […]

She at all times tells you the reality. She doesn’t deceive you and sugar coat a solution for you. She is at all times direct. If you don’t like the reply she provides you then you might be out of luck. Our time actually grew collectively by means of the years, nevertheless, our bond received […]

When my scouting colleague Charlie and I checked out our haphazard construction, a sapling tied to the bottom with sticks and leaves piled on prime we smiled. It regarded appropriate to shelter two individuals, till the climate modified. When the heavens opened up and torrents of rain got here lashing down, any semblance of “waterproofing” […]

As I peered down into the round body of the microscope, I discovered myself gazing nothing. Once more. My eye ached from squinting. Perhaps I wasn’t lower out for this kind of factor. Then, as I anxiously fiddled with the black knob, a blurry dot slowly shifted into focus. I had discovered it: a grayish […]