Reflections: Days that never come back but stay forever

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 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 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 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 they know a better way....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 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 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 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 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 Tobias Van Buren

(3) DIDN'T KNOW I'D NEVER SEE MOM AGAIN - FINAL I hope you read Parts (1) and (2). Each was put into this general category - Relationships & Family, Celebrations & Holidays, though in final, different areas that this wr...read more

by Brandon Bryant

I'm new to this so...just seat back and read what i write i bet after reading this u will understand who i am alright i am a 18 year old man who has been trying to be something he's not i been living my life all l...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 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

by Tami Roxanne Barker Norman

Have you ever looked back into your lifetime that has quickly passed by, and your left wishing you can go back and return to your youthful days, and realize this is not possible, and these were the days of the best, but yo...read more

by ArtyJafty

As teenager, I am normal as others teenagers. Curious and naives, but dare to challenge the unpredictable life as adult. At 14 years old, I work at Well-known toys mall with fake identity. My work praised by my superiors ...read more

by Lynn Lindsay

The Path The red and white marbled stone caught my eye. I picked up the small trinket from the dirt pathway, shaped like a baby's boot. The wind whispered, through the leaves of the maple trees, as I caressed the smo...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