Something profound happened to me on that evening. Words that I heard challenged everything about my life. About how I thought. About how I viewed the world. I was a teenager, basically scared to death of life, and terrified by the world. I had arrived and didn’t quite understand why people were pouring into the…
“I knew she was already gone, but I was holding her in my arms, secretly hoping I was wrong. But I knew I wasn’t.” “I was 16 and she was like a sister to me, lying limp in my arms with no breath.” “I don’t really remember a lot about what else happened that night.…
“I just don’t think I can take it anymore!” were the words I heard between her sobs. “I never know what ‘next thing’ will be what takes my place! First it was the beer, then the porn, then the cigar bars every night, then sugar/carbs (and weight gain) and now it’s the gummies.” There’s always…
I had a blanket I was wrapped up in, so I could pull it up over my eyes when the witch came on the Wizard of Oz. My sister loved to watch that movie, and would beg me to watch it with her again and again. But it was a terrifying movie to me. Because…
“Buckle up securely and brace for impact.” I was terrified! We were descending quickly and you could see absolutely nothing in the white-out snowstorm. We knew we were descending quickly, and suddenly at touchdown we could see that we were landing horizontally across the runway. The plane spun, people screamed. I prayed, as I grabbed…