6A. I started with once upon a time in a very far away land there lived papa bear, mama bear and baby bear. For the song, I started out with five green sparkled frogs. Five green sparkled frogs sat on a speckled log, eating some most delicious bugs. YUM YUM! (rubbing their tummy.)…
She was born on a busy summer night on September 13th 1918 in Brookline, Massachusetts. I always had the feeling that Rosie was a little different from the rest of us. On the day of her birth the midwife arrived late, and my theory is that this action deprived her brain of oxygen. We were proven right when she failed to advance from kindergarten and was deemed to suffer from intellectual disabilities. When this happened our parents began to conceal their third child from society.…
Walking into the locker room about to get ready to go to our last football game of the season. I could smell the sweaty equipment from the kids who never take their pads home. The Hempfield Spartans 7th grade team would be ending their season 0-7 if we didn’t win today. As I was changing into my pads my friend mike walked in the room. I said “you ready for tonight”. “Heck yeah” replied Mike.…
Located in New York, the cultural and financial capital of the world, I know that my time at Columbia will be both productive and enjoyable.…
People have called me a mama’s boy all of my life. I freely admit that I still am a mama’s boy to this day, even though my mama has been dead for 17 years. I talk to her every day as if she were still here with me.…
This is another quote that focuses on the amount of women all over the world who are forced to last (through bad times) whatever harm comes their way. Not only in Afghanistan, but in every country, and every neighbourhood. This is an on going issue in the world that has been around for centuries and is one that is often times 'swept under the rug.' To me, this issue should not be over looked at all, and I would certainly like to see and take part in educating (communities of people) on women's…
There has been many cases in which I have helped an outsider feel welcome. One time in particular is when I played tag with this little boy at church since he was new and no one else played with him. Originally, I was outside eating candy and talking to my friends at church. I noticed that this little boy was standing all alone watching all the other little kids play without him. I thought that maybe he was upset so I went over to him and asked if he wanted the rest of my gummy worms. He seemed nervous at first, but eventually he started talking to me. I learned that he was five years old and he was visiting his grandparents for the weekend. His older brother was outside playing basketball with some of the other older boys at the church, and…
I want to start off by saying how excited I am to be joining A Place for Mom!! I started my career in health care nine years ago, originally working in nursing. I have worked in a variety of health care settings; Independent/Assisted Living, Memory Care, Long Term Care, Skilled Care, and the Hospital. I always knew I wanted to help people, seniors in particular. As a child I grew up living next door to my grandparents and did everything with them, this is where my love for seniors began. While working in the Hospital I came to the conclusion that nursing was not the way I was going to help people. I began working at an Assisted Living Community in Ames, Iowa as the Sales Director. I quickly learned that, that was how I was going to help people. For three years I got the pleasure of not only helping many families relieve their stress and fears for their loved ones care and safety, but I was also able to ensure their loved ones were able to live out their final years thriving. It was truly the most rewarding job, which brought me to A Place for Mom. At A Place for Mom I won't be limited to helping just the families that…
Have you ever had to let go of someone who you loved? We decided to go on a picnic at my aunt lisa's house one summer day of pizza and lemonade in her backyard with my brother and my sister and my dad and my mom and my grandpa me my brother and sister were playing on a slip and slide my dad and grandpa were watching tv and after playing on the slip and slide i ate some pizza and my aunt said that she needed to use the john when she came back she was not the same because she was moving in her chair a weird way then she was letting off a weird stench than her eyes rolled up in her head i could only see white in her eyes i tried shaking her than i started to cry and scream to my mom she called an ambulance and that was the first time i rode…
Growing up, I was unalike from other kids, I was "imaginative". During class, I would always by myself, writing bizarre stories with preposterous characters and with an unpredictable plot, while the other kids were playing with their friends. Many of my classmates would be entertained by loony stories, while other kids thought that I was just some lonely nitwit writing absurd stories to make up for not having any friends. In that year I was relocated to a different school, which I didn't want to go because I didn't have any friends at the school, I was currently attending and it would be much more difficult to make new friends. In the following year, I was still that shy girl in the back of the classroom not interacting with anybody, but it…
The only time I remember breaking a gender role was when I was about seven years old. As a child growing up in a very snowy climate, an absolute necessity was snowshoes that left little monster footprints. All of my classmates had a pair, so I begged my mother to buy me some too. And so we went to a sporting good's store that carried the shoes and suddenly there was a problem. I think at some point in all of our lives we saw pink as a color we absolutely did not want to have. Otherwise, a peer would make a comment about how it was a lame or girly color to like. So, of course, I want the blue ones just like all or most of my female classmates had instead of the pink ones. But my mother took one look at the box they came in and said no, because…
it's extremely hard to make them realize they don't have to deteriorate themselves to impress some BOY! My father did an amazing job making a MAN of me but my mother made me realize the character I want in a WOMAN! These young girls these days must learn they are worth more than a movie ticket and a coke! I hope @maxiekate13 is happy with the man i've been and become for nearly three whole years! (Even though we've seen differences so many times! That's the building of a relationship) I'm not perfect never will I be. I don't usually speak on our relationship but we've came a million miles from where we began. I speak nothing but truth for ones younger than me! I cannot express enough to my younger sister (which hardly anyone on social media…
“I didn’t tell them to stop treating me like I was weak. I just proved I can do anything and be amazing.”Lauren Greenfield, filmmaker, and director of the #likeagirl video. “When the words ‘like a girl” are used to mean something bad. It’s profoundly disempowering. She couldn’t stand how weak the made a girl look. Lauren wants to be part of the movement to redefine “like a girl” into a positive affirmation.”…
As a young child, I would hide behind my mother and grandmother when anyone was approaching; but when I got home, I was a pretty outgoing kid. Then, in middle school, I was an enthusiastic pre-teen longing for attention, constantly joking around. Friends took my feelings lightly, and began to see me as more of a novelty than as a person. My best friend no longer came to me with her latest crush, or secret. I was alone, and home life was not much better. Constantly having rude words thrown at me, name-calling, and hatred had begun to take a toll on my self confidence and behavior. I became quiet and withdrawn; feeling I could never be good enough. In fact, I believed everyone would be better off without me; I was only creating problems and…
Language is really powerful. It can turn a flower girl into a fair lady. It can make a person from labor class way up to the…