I have had these packaged for the longest time, but just have not found the time to get over to the post office to send them with our families busy schedule! I'm sorry it's taken so long. I know how you love your woobies and probably miss them dearly. Look on the bright side though; you h...

Finally Sixteen The most important event in my life took place when I was sixteen. I got my driver's license. When I got my license, my whole life changed. My friends and I started going out more. This was the first time my mother did not have to drive me around. I started going out mor...

Have you ever heard the term men and women can't be friends? I am sure you have. This argument has bothered me for years now. Many people think that it is possible, when in reality it is not. I believe men and women cannot be friends without anything happening between them. There is no such th...

THE PICTURE A picture is a wonderful thing, full of memories, great times, and much more. This picture consists of three things that play a major role in my life; my friends, snowboarding, and the snow. Each help build my life completing and making it a whole just like the world and how it goes ...

Book Review *Chapter One: I'm reading the book called " I Know What You Did Last Summer" by Lois Duncan. This girl named Julie came downstairs to find she had a letter waiting for her, it was from a college her mom had attended. She was exited that it had finally ca...

To fall in love is such a wonderful thing, and it can only get better as time goes on, right? Sometimes, though, certain circumstances come together and love doesn't get better over time. In fact, it gets worse. you begin to feel suffocated by someone and their insecurities start to overwhe...

Comparison Essay By Chris Donahue If one read Raymond Carver's Neighbors and Poe's Masque of the Red Death, the reader would notice two characters that disregarded their responsibilities...

My Rude Awakening The beginning of my freshman year in high school started out to be what I thought was, "great." I was hanging out with the cool seniors and moving up the social ladder quite rapidly. Little did I know how much my friends would influence my life. My parents had ju...

Growing Up: A Reflection Essay on Life -Michael Hof Do you remember your world when you were a small child? Can you picture a single day as a 3...

Things Only Get Better "Evan." My eyes examined the words, "Evan Evan..." I repeated. It was written all over her binder. Not one centimeter without a heart or something else. I knew right then that she was in love. Riley and I have been best friends ever since I can reme...

The brilliant rays of the morning sun shone brightly right through the curtains. I woke up feeling fresh and excited as it was my birthday. Suddenly, I heard the door bell ringing and I know that my mother and the maid had returned from the market, ladened with my birthday goodies such as cakes, 'o...

Several times a week I witness my fellow students make a choice that may end their lives. Without giving it a second thought these individuals put their lives and those who surround them in danger. When they do this I am sure they never think that they could be committing murder. What they are doin...

With or Without You "See the stone set in your eyes, see the thorn twist in your side. I'll wait, for you. Slide of hand and twist of fate, on a bed of nails see makes me wait. And I'll wait, without you, with or without you, with or without you. Through the storm we reach the shore, you ...

In high school, I was a bad kid. I didn't do drugs or drink beer, but I was bad. School wasn't a priority of mine during my junior year, and I failed all of my classes except weight training, ceramics, and jewelry. I lived for the bell at the end of the day. This was the first year that...

Bright lights flash simultaneously across the big screen message board. The crowd goes wild and roars with excitement as the pit crew rush in towards the car to congratulate the winning driver. I remember sitting in front of the television set and watching the driver step out of the car and be ...

It was the night of the Freeport High School's Junior/Senior Prom. The dance ended around eleven o'clock pm, and then everyone went to the post prom. The quarterback of the football team and his date decide to go and by some alcohol for them to have after the post prom. The arrived at post...

As the day turned to night, there sat an old man in his rocking chair on his front porch. He was a peculiar man that all the kids in the neighborhood were terrified of, although none of us had ever spoken to him. We all called him "Crazy Man." Every night he would sit in his rocking...

Days on the Lake It was a fairly overcast Friday afternoon. My friends and I were out on the lake trying to tough it out through the weather. It really doesn't matter how bad the weather is, we can always have a good time on the lake. At the beginning of the summer, a couple of friend...

Jon was out walking in the forest behind his house like he usually did after dinner. Giant tree limbs far above him swayed in synchronization with the faint howling of the wind. Low croaking of many frogs seemed to sound in harmony with the high-pitched chirps of the little brown birds. The leaves g...

College? Who needs it? Not me, that's for sure. At least, that's what I had thought for a long time. In the last two years of high school, I didn't do much. I knew that I wasn't going to go to college. No matter what I told my parents and teachers, I knew it wasn't for me. All I wanted to do w...

Unfair Judgments Everyone has their share of being judged unfairly and many do their share of judging others unfairly. It's human nature to compare and contrast others to yourself or "your group". Sometimes, though, it can get out of hand and people are down right mean and hurtf...

Growing up from a child to adulthood is one of the most difficult progressions to do. There is so much that goes on in life, for example, our health. Throughout life you make doctor's appointments to stay in good health, but there is always that one chance that when you are at the doctor&apos...

The summer was never ending, day after day spent in fields of waving corn, the gentle sound of humming insects filled the air, and sensual concoctions of a an English summer meadow filled ones mind. In a giant oak tree seemingly there since the dawning of the ages, sat a young boy and girl, both to...

The summer was never ending, day after day spent in fields of waving corn, the gentle sound of humming insects filled the air, and sensual concoctions of a an English summer meadow filled ones mind. In a giant oak tree seemingly there since the dawning of the ages, sat a young boy and girl, both to...

Underage Drinking Today underage drinking is somewhat of a problem. I don't want to go ahead and say it is wrong and I can't believe it is happening. That would be a mistake and in fact very hypocritical. I drink and I am not of legal age. In fact a lot of people do, especially colle...