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NOW

By Joseph J. Mazzella on July 09, 2014 / 6,191 views

I haven't worn a watch for a few years now and I must say I don't miss it. I don't miss the band rubbing the hair off my wrist. I don't miss the heat rash it always gave me during the Summer. Most of all I don't miss constantly checking it to see if I am late. Still, when a little girl walked up behind me in the store the other day and asked me what time it was I found my arm going up to my face and my eyes glancing...

Fireworks!

By Curt Struna on July 05, 2014 / 6,163 views

My family had been invited to someone's hunting camp for a fireworks show a long time ago. The camp was a cabin in the middle of the woods and there were about 50 people there. The guys that were running the show had several thousand dollars worth of fireworks in the bed of a pickup truck which they parked by a pond about 200 feet from the cabin where everyone was sitting. They set off a few rockets and one of first...

My Life Is Over...No Regrets

By Coach Muller on July 05, 2014 / 1,993 views

This past year has been one of the most heart-wrenching and hardest years of my life. It was a week before Christmas, last year, when I lost my best friend in the world, my dad. A week or so later, as soon as I got home from his memorial service, I found out that one of my friends got killed in a snowmobile accident. He left behind a wife and a 3 year old son. From that time until today, four more people that I knew...

Coincidence

By Joseph J. Mazzella on July 01, 2014 / 1,658 views

I don't believe in coincidence. I haven't for a long time now. As I look back at all the trials, changes, and moments that have steered my life I can't believe that they were all just coincidence. Too many times something has put me on a different path. Too many times a triumph or tragedy has helped to shape my soul. Too many times an unexpected event has moved me to grow into who I was meant to be. Far too much has...

Hi I Am Pen And I Sell Pens

By Paul Victor on June 29, 2014 / 1,884 views

The perspective changing event happened on a very exhaustive day. The usual routine of our working lives through which there are alot of things that needed to be accomplished but time is so limited. A time that is so un-ideal to get immersed in so much introspection. A text message interrupted my so occupied brain soaked in so much thinking. A friend of mine from highschool asked me to hang out, a very untimely...

Following My Dreams: From Idea To Reality!

By Justin Herd on June 29, 2014 / 8,105 views

I became very familiar with the Ramen Noodle and Mac and Cheese diet in college. With a limited budget and limited kitchen space, I never owned a strainer. I frequently used a spare lid or fork lying around to get the job done. This inspired me to come up with a better way make my daily noodle meals. Starting as a napkin sketch, my idea for a helpful tool for college students to make noodles has come a long way....

The Man Who Stopped Complaining

By Colin Hall on June 29, 2014 / 16,039 views

The Man Who Stopped Complaining by Colin Hall He had been complaining to anyone who would listen. Even a quiet moan to himself. His thoughts reached as high as complaining to God, whoever and wherever and indeed, if ever He existed. It does not do any good at all to complain. Ask anyone who has ever tried to get through to MPs about how they milk the system to the cost of the electorate. Or those who try...

What IT Means To Be A Dad (To Me)

By Coach Muller on June 27, 2014 / 4,760 views

Twenty three years ago, the Lord decided to bless me with the first of my two sons. Needless to say, I have enjoyed every second of my life being a father and, most importantly, a dad to my boys. To be able to be a good example of the Lord, give Godly advice, and love them unconditionally is the best gift that I could ever be to them. In my opinion, being a REAL dad is so much more than just saying that I am...

Don't Bother Sending A Tech, I'll Be Dead By Then

By GDD on June 25, 2014 / 10,499 views

So my story starts on what was a normal day taking calls on the front line for a large cable company. The job pays well and for the most part the people I deal with are fairly nice to talk to. Quite often we'll get calls from seniors (especially in the morning) who have premise equipment issues such as "snow on screen" or "no signal" on their TV sets connected to our digital equipment. Now my heart does go...

A Moment Of Kindness

By Joseph J. Mazzella on June 25, 2014 / 2,214 views

After all of these years I can still remember my first moment of kindness. It was the first day of Kindergarten. I walked in with my mom and was amazed at all the toys against the walls. It was like having my own tiny, toy store. I smiled and immediately ran over to them and started to play. Most of the other kids were doing the same while the parents talked to the teacher before the start of class. In the corner,...

Feeding My Dad

By Sunshine on June 23, 2014 / 1,622 views

3 years ago, my dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, not really familiar with it or didn’t think that this would concern me at that time, since dad seemed okay, he was starting to forget a bit but nothing critical, he was still going to work and everything seemed fine…today after 3 years, no one would have imagined we could get to this stage, my dad is at home, he can’t work anymore or perform anything , he...

A Piece Of Bread

By Joseph J. Mazzella on June 19, 2014 / 16,216 views

I was sitting in my car in a convenience store parking lot nibbling on a biscuit that I had bought for lunch. The morning had been busy and full of errands and the afternoon looked like it would be even busier still. It was one of those days that we often get in modern life with too much to do and too little time to do it. I had decided to take a five minute break then and eat my biscuit slowly instead of...

Cancer Won't Take My Dad

By Whatkatetoldme.com on June 18, 2014 / 6,784 views

Cancer can take a lot of things. It can take your hope, your strength, or your belief in good. It can take your hair. Cancer, melanoma to be specific, took some of the skin on my father’s back. Later, cancer would take half of my dad’s thyroid, then the whole thing. Cancer came a third time to take a patch of skin on the side of his head. But cancer is malicious and selfish. Cancer just came a fourth time to...

The Quest To Find My Teacher

By Jim Mitchell on June 16, 2014 / 5,252 views

“The sick and dying are your teachers.” What a strange comment from Chaplain McLaughlin to say at our monthly hospital team meeting. My mind chewed on this, but I just couldn’t digest it. Now Chaplain hadn’t been one to say anything off the cuff. Her true purpose at meetings was to guide us volunteers closer to spiritual communion and away from being earth bound. This comment called for a movement on my...

My 3 Roses

By Sunshine on June 16, 2014 / 9,811 views

It has been 2 weeks since the so called’ love of my life’ broke up with me, devastated again for the countless times, I really can’t keep track anymore….you would think that I should have been tougher with all the love failures I’ve been through, but no, every time it hurts even more, as if Life isn’t yet tired of messing with my glimpses of happiness… I am a believer in general; however I don’t...

She Was Dead, But What Happened Next Blew Me Away!

By Tyrie Collinsdale on June 15, 2014 / 8,911 views

Rabbits die all the time. But sometimes, miracles happen. Nadia is a fourteen-year-old girl from Colorado. On Saturday morning of June 14th, her cats were sitting next to two of their families' cars. She went down to investigate, to find a rabbit lying on the ground, breathing heavily and apparently dying. while she watched, the rabbit slowly slipped away over the course of fifteen minutes. Not quite sure the...

A Vision Of Steve's Bike

By Mary Nella McLaughlin on June 12, 2014 / 8,553 views

After meeting a man outside of a church one day, we set up regular times to study the Bible together. He seemed like he needed a friend. He always sat alone outside before the service smoking, and sat by himself in the church. His clothes were clean, but he had a certain look to him that might have scared a few off. His beard almost reached his belt buckle and his hair was swept back in a long ponytail. In...