A Blessing In Disguise At eight years of age, my biggest problem should have been deflecting the names of Bucky Beaver and Nerd. My teeth protruded from my lips, my bangs hung in my eyes, and my bobby socks sagged at my ankles. What place do saggy socks have in the mind of a child when my parents...

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You fought all through your teenage years to get out of your parents' house, have your own place and be free like them. Being free from your parents is not always so liberating once you find out what they had to go through, what it takes to live on your own, and how long it takes to live comfor...

November 30, 1987 at 10:35a.m Britney was born. I was not alone in my birth,30 minutes later my twin Whitney was born. At 8 months I was walking and talking. I lived on Mission Street in Prichard ,Alabama. When I was one I moved to Whistler St. not to far from my first house. I here...

Taking Things For Granted... While chowing down some fried rice, I was busy watching poetry in action when my mother told me to turn off 'that wrestling trash.' Then I pondered something: how many people are missing out on this stuff? Then I pondered something else: how many ...

The Bean Trees The novel The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver is a story that possesses many different themes throughout its duration. As you read you can see how these themes develop and start to mold the whole idea of how the story is laid out. Themes such as women and men, names as forms of iden...