At the age of eleven I was going into my Sixth grade year at Metcalf Elementary School. Sixth grade was going to be the highlight of my Metcalf experience. I would be one of the “Big Kids”. Sixth graders owned the school and were the coolest kids ever. They got first pick for after school […]
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If I won a $20 million dollar lottery the first person I would call, unless she was present with me when I found out, would be my mom. She is the person I tell everything too. If she was with me and found out that I had one the same time that I did, I […]
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If no one was ever given a second chance there would be very few successful people in the world. Hardly anyone accomplishes a goal on their first attempt. The famous quote by Thomas H. Palmer, “‘Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try again. If at first you don’t succeed, Try, try again,” strongly supports […]
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As I get older, I tend to look back on my life in terms of separate lives instead of stages. When we’re young, we tend to wish for the the ability to bounce back and forth through time. Can’t Christmas come tomorrow? Or, that snow day was fantastic, I wish it could happen all over […]
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Everyone wants to be successful in their life. That’s the easy part. The bigger question that’s open to interpretation: what’s the measure of success? Is it money, possessions, a happy family, self satisfaction, a life of leisure, a career you enjoy? Is it all of these — or none of these? So just how do […]
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Second chances are not a question, but a necessity. The world relies on second chances, and on thirds and fourths, to keep moving. For the 9-month-old brought from a Cambodia orphanage into a Southwest Ohio home. For the woman who suffered a heart attack before the age of thirty and survived to become a mother. […]
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It was morning when I arrived with my mother on an overcast day. I felt anxious, understandably, because I had no idea what the next couple of hours would entail. “What was going to happen?” was the question that established itself in my small, five-year-old head, as I held on to my mother’s hand as […]
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From the day I was wrapped in my new born baby blanket I was daddy’s baby girl. I would cry if anybody else held me, wouldn’t even let my mom hold me long enough to feed me, leaving her with no choice but to let my dad bottle-feed me at five months, thus beginning our […]
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