Simple Thoughts
Last week, a few of my friends and I finished up the last National Speech and Debate tournament we would ever compete in. Words cannot explain the magnitude of this milestone, nevertheless, I will do my best to recount my trip and final thoughts on this event. Wow. Yes, I don’t know how to say [...]
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I had a challenge recently to write an essay that supported the defense of marriage act. The catch, was that I wasn’t allowed to reference or use the Bible. Thus, I researched the topic, got some great sources, ran it by my parents, and then redid it… at least four times. This is the secular [...]
The countryside is strewn with garbage; giving one the impression that the local landfill has been bombed, and no one has bothered to clean up it’s remains. The buildings here are hopeful things. Most of them are only partly completed, boasting four walls and a flat roof studded with uncut rebar protruding from their framework [...]
We were sitting around the dinner table playing a game of Rich man Poor man, and I was the rich man. Because of this, I got to deal the cards out to everyone, and after I flipped them fancily through my fingers, I rapped them smartly on the table to get them straightened out. There [...]
“The state run convalescent hospital is not a pleasant place. It is large, understaffed, and overfilled with senile and helpless and lonely people who are waiting to die. On the brightest of days it seems dark inside, and it smells of sickness and stale urine. I went there, and I always left wit a sense [...]
