Essays: Life

by Angela Alsaleem

Slaying the Attitude Vampire The workplace often acts as a stimulant for the attitude vampire. Once inside the building, one may hear an ominous sucking sound, soft as a sigh over his or her shoulder and feel his or her...read more

by Ed Ostrom

If you stop along life's path to smell the roses, you might from time to time, encounter the sharp point of a jagged thorn. Does that mean you avoid the rose-bush because of the thorns? If you avoid the rose-bush, you will...read more

by Nicki Marks

When I Met Oliver Life can be cruel. It can makes us or break us, build us up or tear us down. For most of my life I felt like I was living in the dark. I was never happy. I had a good family and good friends. On the su...read more

by Steven Howell

In a few weeks, I will leave North Carolina for a fifteen-month long deployment to Iraq with the U.S. Army's XVIII Airborne Corps. My family and I learned of the impending separation over a year ago. We live with the drea...read more

by Bradley Harrison

Life could be defined as the reflection of human worth in the scope of an individual perspective. Humans are not confined to simply surviving, regardless of how bleak their personal dispositions may appear. People live i...read more

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by William Burkholder

Remains We pulled through the gates, past the caretaker's office and made the slow deliberate drive to my fathers' grave. This was to be my first visit to the cemetery. The year since his passing, my mother had kept da...read more

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by Trevor Penick

The Perfect Norm I get thoroughly engrossed in the twenty minutes of previews shown before the feature presentation. It's my favorite part of the moving going experience. When the screen casts its Kelly green glow on ch...read more

by Shannon Piserchio

My Voice, My Legacy "As a happy, free-spirited girl who had already overcome an awkward and pathetic childhood, I burst to life in high school. My mother and I moved from a terribly oppressive situation in Iowa to Co...read more

by Irene C. Dasalla

The Ultimate Project of a Lifetime As I examine the world around me, I noticed that most of us are caught up in the hustle and bustle called life. When we wake up in the morning, we are such in a hurry to go to shower...read more

by Tracy Bishop

Optimism for the future is crucial because without a positive outlook what do we have to yearn for. The world's people need to have optimism to have something to grant them hope. I conclude that numerous changes could come...read more

by Lee Tai Wah

The Men Who Hold Up The Mountain Yesterday I watched a documentary on the porters of Huashan, one of China's five sacred Taoist mountains, which is about 2200 metres high. These porters carry loads of provisions like...read more

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by cyndihaltom52

Early morning, my favorite time of the day. My bedroom window has been slightly open all night and the smells of the evening before have settled to the floor and the fresh clean smell permeates the air. I take in a deep ...read more

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by Geraldine Griffin

We all come into this world crying. I sometimes wonder if life is a gift or a sentence. Was there something before life that slit our throats and sent us here? Or were we given life by a divine influence? I prefer ...read more

by Michael Onov

The Beggar "I am just a beggar in a Land of Lost and Crippled Souls Be merciful and give me a piece of your heart to survive the night" These were the last words of an old beggar. He had spent his entire life searchi...read more

by Maria Lorenza Alba

WHAT I'VE LEARNED I won't pretend to know everything, because I don't. i wont pretend to be a guru on everything, because God knows I'm not. I'm neither a prophet nor a messiah. Not even a preacher to oblige you to hav...read more

by Dossie M Terrell

THE POTENTIAL TO BE The potential to be is the greatest gift from our creator. If we accept it, His power allows us the rare opportunity to search for that thing we do best that will ultimately help to define us; some ...read more

by Ronald Claiborne

What is life? Such a question as this at a time like this is perplexing because we generally define our lives in relationship to the outcomes that are occurring during the current contemporary times in which we live. Cha...read more

by Joshua Murphy

A night in the life of an addict. I awoke in the middle of the night as is my custom. That same dull headache in the bowels of my occipital lobe was present again. I couldn't remember all the pills I had taken the day...read more

by Yomi Makanjuola

FEELING LUCKY I'm a big Flora fan - Flora margarine, that is. Recently, as I was buttering a slice of toasted bread. wait a minute, buttering? Is ma...read more

by Erin Cook

Life is what you make of it. Some people think that you can mess around because they will live long. Life can sometimes cut you off when you at least expect it too. When I was working as a nurses aid at a retirement home t...read more