Memoirs: Moments that change your life

by Vicki Stockard Phipps

Thelma, Louise and Me Douglas Noel Adams said, "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." I know exactly what he means. It happened to me in the...read more

by Jennie-Lynn Pole

Our Christmas Masterpiece "Custody shall be granted," were the only words that penetrated my mind, on that frigid December morning. The year was 1993; it was only a week away from my fifteenth birthday and my life that...read more

by Margaret Merrill

April 25, 1994. A night never to be forgotten. The kids and I had moved back into the house after a separation from my husband. We had been living in Dayton, Ohio for about a month, and came back home to try one more ti...read more

by Ia L. Thor

As I live my life in it's current status. I'm forced to live with memories and images of a once not-so-perfect family. This of which consists of my mother, father, three younger brothers, two younger sisters. I am the o...read more

by P. J. Schulman

I remember the first time I went to school with an African American. Now you must remember I am 50 years of age, so this was quite a while ago. I was in the 4th grade. I lived in a town of approximately 5,000 people in ...read more

by M.J. Wallace

Flying into Iraq on my 20th birthday, which happens to be Christmas Eve my first one away from home, and it feels like I've never been home. Never experienced what it was like to wake up and hear my Mom packing a school lu...read more

by Elizabeth Flynt

In the early 70s, I married. My husband and I climbed aboard our life's boat and sailed off in the company of one another. We bought a house, took a yoga class, went camping in a tent, and had dinner with friends, in sho...read more

by Donald Z Smith

During 1968 and 1969, I spent time with both the First and Third Marines Divisions in combat in Vietnam. I was fresh out of high school and felt extremely patriotic and wanted to join the Marines. I enlisted in May of 19...read more

by Queenie

Let me start by saying, I am not a small woman. I went straight from 7lbs 1oz. to 286lbs and it seemed there was no in between. However there was, and so brings me to the moment that changed my life and all I had ever know...read more

by Linda Bernstein

A DISABLED LADY HAD A LIFE CHANGING EVENT I am a disabled lady age 53, who has been disabled from birth with cerebral palsy. i was born premetuely at 2lbs and 12 ounces. i had a fifty fifty chance of living, seeing and ...read more

by John Erianne

How I Learned to Use a Light Saber "What was it about this assignment you didn't understand?" Ms. Weist shouted. She was a small woman, shorter than many of her students, but she had a voice as shrill as a band s...read more

by David L. Sullivan

May Day Today is May first. On the local news this morning they were talking about this being a day of celebration and awareness. I'm sure that there were many people watching the broadcast who had no idea what tha...read more

by JRR

There are experiences in everyones life that can be life changing. Some good, some bad, but each different. Even though different people may experience similar situations, everyone deals with things differently. In ...read more

by lucy rucker

Life changes, we should expect it Life does change, when you least expect it. But we should expect it. One moment you are young and healthy, and you take it all for granted. Then suddenly you are living as a forty-six ...read more

by Patricia Sicilia

Living Through Senior Week - A Mother's Story When I graduated from Philadelphia's St. Hubert's Catholic High School for Girls in 1969, "Senior Week" was the week you went to work. By 1988, when my daughter graduated ...read more

by Allan Eastman

MIDNIGHT AT THE BUCKSKIN BAR When I was still a relatively young and fairly inexperienced Director, my first low budget movie and a couple of Beachcomber episodes under my belt, I moved for the first time to Hollywood ...read more

by Anthony Bertrand

Moments that change your life There are many moments in a persons life that brings change, but the most profound are the ones that place you at that point where if you could stop time and answer the question, "are you ...read more

by Angela Chansky

New Years Eve 1998, my husband Mark and I had gone out to dinner to celebrate with some friends. I was in my 5 month of pregnancy and had found out I was having a little girl less than a week earlier. It was really the ...read more

by Michele Harper

About six months ago, I was told that my white blood cell count was high. My doctor sent me to a blood doctor so that he could figure out why this was. This doctor ran about five tests per week (radiology, blood tests, etc...read more

by Elizabeth Haggis

The longest journey. When I was very young about 5 years old there was a programme called "All Our Yesterdays". From recollection, it showed newsreels dating from 25 years ago in that week. Mostly, it showed grainy, j...read more