Reflections: Days that never come back but stay forever 22 Articles

by Genine Hopkins

The Endless summer of 1977. I was kissed by Andy Gibb when I was 14. It was the summer of 1977, before the U.S. Hostages were taken by students in Iran and a time when the country was still healing from the Watergate s...read more

by E. V. SHAW

There was a time, some fifty or so years ago, when my grandfather allowed me to go on a date. It was with an upper classmate and he wore glasses. This was a special time in my life for grandfather, for the longest, would n...read more

by Ernest Smartt

A Father/Son Event Frozen In Time Coaching my Son in his first little league experience was to become a forever memory for both of us. I really wasn't a coach, but we parents always seem to think we know a better way. W...read more

by Patricia Hughes

I was fast asleep in the middle of the night. In the dark room I was suddenly dragged out of my sleep by a loud rumble from the stairs beside my bedroom door. I can hear it now, like the fast, angular tumble of a heavy obj...read more

by Gina Diez

The morning of my beloved Grandma Marys funeral changed who I was, how I lived, how I reacted to things, and what would be important to me for the rest of my adult life. Not for the usual reasons, oh yes, I was sad, in fa...read more

by Carole Wilson

Childhood's End I ran around the park, happy to be around my old friends. I quickly changed out of my church clothes in the park's restroom and started to catch up with my friends. The table was filling with more dishes...read more

by Mitzi Windus

A favorite pastime of my granddaughter was sitting on my lap and talking. She was four years old and had the imagination that goes along with the age. She lost some of that imagination as she got older or maybe she was ju...read more

by Ruth Jolly

As I sit in my wonderful hotel room and breathe in the sea air my mind begins to wonder, it wonders back to all of the events of that day.Our wonderful wedding how all that planning and stressful work payed off.In the end ...read more

by Christopher Watson

On May 28, 2005 I encountered my first miracle of combat. At the ripe old age of 34, I was one of the oldest in my Platoon of fellow Texas Army National Guardsmen. Our orders that day were to secure a bridge, and clear a...read more

by Danilo Lopez

Chino Morales' Last Stand "We found him here" the policeman pointed to a spot on the grassy ground besides the road from Managua to Masaya. It was a ditch about ten feet off of the pavement. There were no signs of blood...read more

by Janet Dunn

I have come to realize that childhood memories are a yearning for the past times of innocence and uncluttered lives. When there was nothing to worry about except playing. That's all we did was play, outside, in the dirt....read more

by Tammy L Mahan

How ironic that I came across this title while rating. My goal in writing this article is not to be one of the top ranking articles, it is for a healing purpose. It seems for the past 12 years now, I have written this same...read more

by Kathleen Fischetti

The sun was starting to come out after days of rain and in the last days of August, 2007. The weather had been cool, so cool, you needed sweatshirts and pants! The kids had been cooped up in the house for the last few da...read more

by Mama Mc

It has been a long time since I really had a good day. It is just like when I was becoming a young adult; this time in my life I never listened to my elders who spoke from experience,there are older people that has really...read more

by Valentine Cartwright

-AN ANGELS LAUGH- It was eight months ago that this day,which will linger forever in my memory,took place.My school was having it's usual Friday pep-rally,and I was sitting in the gym with my friend Kayla lingle and her...read more

by Joanne Smith

The demolition of the house would come as a surprise to me driving to my sister's house one sunny afternoon. The glimmer of a bull dozer blade caught my attention as I began to coast by the property. There on top of a sm...read more

by Dragonspassion26

When my husband and I first started dating we talked about alot of different things , as most couples do when they first get to know each other and their likes and dislikes. One of the things I told him was "every Christ...read more

by Kieran Young

When I was younger I had a Step-mother that bullied me behind my Dad's back... When I was younger we went to a Spiritual fair When I was younger my step-mother told the family that she had been to a medium at the fa...read more

by M. J. Schlagle

The other day as Dad and I were sorting through some of the things at the house, he remarked to me that he would be happy when you both finally moved out this week. He was glad to be getting rid of the burden that the hous...read more

by Richard Bryan Melling

YESTERDAY'S YOUTH In the time a few years after the Second World War the youth of the day had a happy and fulfilling upbringing, this story is about the life of one of them, His life as a happy go-luck boy, he took an...read more