My mother was a simple cook. She prepared foods she'd been raised on, plain Southern fare-rice, gravy, sliced tomatoes, turnip greens, cornpone, grits, eggs, chicken and dumplings, pot roast, ham, field peas, lima beans, potato salad, stewed okra, pumpkin pie, salmon balls. We didn't have fancy casseroles or lasagnas or spaghetti, and nobody had ever heard of a burrito or an egg roll. I didn't know what an artichoke or a parsnip or kiwi or papaya was-certainly had never taste them. We drank sweet iced tea and sometimes lemonade.…
The items both my grandmothers made was blackberry jelly. They could make the best jelly. Grandmother made blackberry cobbler all the time for Granddaddy. I remember just sitting on the bar stools and watching Grandmother get everything ready to start making blackberry jelly. She would start sterilizing the jars and lids. I do not remember how she made the jelly and wish I got her recipe before she passed. I also remember her putting the jars in the pressure cooker. There are so many memories in the fall time of the year.…
She always cooked good food. Papa worked a lot, so we didn’t see him often. Living with grandparents who loved us and wanted us around was…
On St. Patrick’s Day I had the pleasure of volunteering in a first grade class at my former elementary school. Each time I go back to the school, it brings back memories that I have not thought of in many years. Elementary school seems like a lifetime ago for me. But, because I had so many good experiences there, I love being able to be a part of the memories that kids today will always have. For example, holidays were always some of the best memories of my time at Lanigan because the teachers always went to such great lengths to make it an enjoyable time for everyone. So, on St. Patrick’s Day naturally almost every kid was wearing green. Some had on green and gold beads, some had green glasses, and one girl even had a pouch of “gold coins”.…
The salvation army supports the community many ways during the christmas holidays. They have an annual “Fill the Kettle for Christmas” there is also a “Santa Shuffle” to raise money, and there is also a Christmas hamper program.…
1). In the majority of species, a small yet motile sperm fertilizes a much larger but also immobile egg to create a zygote. This zygote must then undergo cleavage. In humans, cleavage occurs about 24 hours after the forming of a zygote. Cleavage is a succession of mitotic cell divisions without cell growth between division cycles. There is close to no cell growth because during cleavage, the embryonic cells undergo the S and M phases of the cell cycle but practically avoid the G1 and G2 phases. Thus, the embryo does not increase in cytoplasmic material or enlarge but merely partitions its zygote into smaller blastomeres. The first five to seven divisions produce a…
Well, if I have to select between Thanksgiving and Christmas as my favorite festival, I will definitely choose Thanksgiving over Christmas, because we can eat turkeys and pumpkin pie in that time. I enjoy turkeys; however, it is equally important to maintain the health and stay far away from any health issues. Everyone loves Thanksgiving and everyone enjoys eating, we love to eat with our friends and family. However, people from any background and situations celebrate it in their own way; for example, a vegan may demand Asparagus salad, whereas a foodie may desire sugary spice pecans. What my point is, despite having various choices of food, health should be the utmost priority.…
Recently the so called “artistic” movie spring breakers and came and to say the least it was probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The movie is supposed to be about four girls in college who are tired of their ordinary lives so they seek finding themselves on spring break in Florida. The movie is supposed to display these girls as innocence girls trying to find themselves through sex, drugs, and money but find out that those are not the things to go to find themselves.…
I spent some time thinking of some meaningful places to me but the one that stands out the most is a table. Its not an ordinary table but rather yet a very long picnic table, one that could hold about forty people. During the summer months this table is filled with some of the most interesting and friendly people I have ever been around. For the past three years I have worked for a whitewater rafting company on one of the more challenging rivers in the Southeast. Our home base is what we call the “outpost”, its where we eat, sleep, shower, and live our lives in what some people might call a barbaric way of life. The outpost consists of about forty or so river guides that take people down challenging class four and five whitewater during the day and then come home for an evening of events at night. At the outpost we have one raft guide that has decided to lay down their paddle in order to supply the community with delicious food every night at 6. Tired from paddling on the river all day, river guides are relaxing but mostly hungry. Some are lying down in what we call “bungalows” it’s an extravagant way of describing the home…
What is the first thing that goes though your mind when you hear the words Memorial Day? What does it mean to you? What symbolization does it hold in you? Ladies and gentlemen, sadly enough, the true meaning of Memorial Day has been seemingly lost by the majority of Americans today. Many confuse this day for Veterans Day or even Armed Forces Day. Although it is highly appropriate to honor all our veterans, living and dead, and to recognize their immeasurable contributions to our country, this is not the true meaning of Memorial Day. When I asked you what the day means to you what is symbolized to you, what went through you mind? Did you simply think of it as another federal holiday? A 3-day weekend? The beginning of the 100 days of Summer a BBQ? Or did you think of a mother…
Derek Walcott, in his ‘Thanksgiving’ poem manages to touch the audience immensely and achieves different moods at different intervals as he progresses through the poem.…
As you are aware I'm sure, I hadn't turned in my intent to return form yet because I wasn't sure, as I had been told that I was in a position to possibly get promoted at my other job. I have come to find out yesterday that I got the promotion, and I am super excited for the opportunity. Unfortunately, it means more hours, and I won't be able to juggle that job and this one at the desk, plus school. One had to go, and I am choosing to resign from this job.…
“Keep your eye open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.” There are so many things to be thankful for in life, big and small. I am thankful for my grandparents, my dogs and cat, and my mom. I am thankful for them because of everything they do for me.…
Thanksgiving, one of the most joyful times of the year- unless you're a turkey. You see, this whole Thanksgiving thing started about four hundred years ago. In that time, more than 18000 million of my closest relatives have been murdered. I would escape but i'm a domestic turkey, so i can't fly. I were a wild turkey, i would waddle away from this place, after all, a am the biggest turkey in the pen. Many of the young fryers in my pen don’t know their fate, but I do. How does one of the most highly respected animals in the animal kingdom fall this low, I mean, we were almost the national symbol of the United States of America and now, we are being ripped apart, pulverized, and eaten by our own people. Us turkeys have to watch out for our own, it's a dangerous world out there.…
It was the last Thanksgiving that my grandparents were there for. How could we ever expect them to be, they slept in small cases underneath the grass. Nonetheless it was merry, still filled with so much “family” that I had never met and I still flinched at the words, “do you remember me?” that parted from unrecognized lips. There was Aunt Helen’s famous apple pie, and the six turkeys, and the dogs running around in the backyard.…