My Dearest Emelye, You have only just left my chamber a short time ago, but I can still smell the essence of you lingering in the air. I can still feel your caring hands caressing my face and arms as you tried to bring comfort to me in these last hours. The ghost of your presence soothes my soul ...

Generally when we think of marriage, we think of old married couples who have been together what seems to us as forever. But sooner than later, marriage is going to become a very big part of our lives. We need to prepare for it years in advance so when the time comes we are not so overwhel...

Three years ago my husband and I got married. It was a beautiful ceremony, two hundred and fifty of our closest friends and family, black and silver draped everywhere. Standing at the alter professing our dyeing love for one another and suddenly those two words I've waited to hear all my life c...

When I turned sixteen he stopped loving me. I was no longer the daughter he wanted or planned for. I was the thorn in his side, the pesky fly that never left. In his mind, I was holding him back from his glorious empire, and for that he put his hands on me. But, I was never a bad child; in...

A Celebration of the Tragic Have you ever read a story about how someone had a close person in their life die? Didn't it make you sad? I know it makes me sad when I read stuff like that. I want this reading to be different. Although my story is about death, it is still somewhat sad...

The Agony of Not UnderstandingA process of miserable, indescribable, gut wrenching, horrific, inhuman, suffering are all ways used to describe agony in ones life. Have there ever been moments that you wished you never experienced. Are they so awful, that you dare not wish them on your nemeses? We...

School year of 2002-2003 was one if not the most significant experience in my so called life. It was the point of my life where I almost had to choose between life and death. I was in my third year of high school. And nevertheless my youth, I undergone through it. I had remarkably finished and pa...

KING COLEN A Story for children When I was in elementary school me and the rest of the school used to do some pretty silly stuff during recess. For example we would elect a new king of the playground each year. The king had no authority over us kids during class, but when that...

The three core principles, meaning, language, and thought, of George Herbert Mead's theory of symbolic interactionism, will be used explain the creation of Conrad's "self" and his socialization into the larger community within Ordinary People.Conrad has locked himself into a horrible self-fulfilling...

Many people have busy lives, especially someone who has to juggle more than one task per day. The people in particular that I am talking about are college students. How some of us have jobs and need jobs that help keep us in school. The tough part is that we have to spend most of our time o...

About one year ago I remember hearing about some very awful news. My grandmother had died suddenly. In my mind it was impossible that this could happen. No one who was close to me had ever died before. It was even harder to believe because my grandmother had been much more healthy than her husba...