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Covid-19: I'm a nurse, and I don't have the answers
We've been doing this pandemic thing for over a year now. I'm a nurse. I'm a nurse who worked in a local hot spot when the outbreak started. I was in the thick of the danger. It was a time when you could taste the fear hanging in the air. The PPE shortages were real. The unknown was real.
By Jessica Freeborn5 years ago in Confessions
Is being introvert bad ??
For as long as I could remember, now I've always found comfort in my time alone. In fact this is where I want to spend more of my time, Actually it's a place where I feel like I come alive . Unfortunately if you were to look up the word introvert, you would see a definition of a shy reticent person. To be honest I don't think this is a very accurate description of what a introvert is...
By Yug Acharya5 years ago in Confessions
1:20
1:20 My phones ringing, butterflies filled my stomach, I have been waiting for this call. “Hello?” I whispered “hello beautiful, meet me at Tides, 6 oclock.” He whispers back in his raspy voice. Thats all I wanted to hear, a time and place. Im getting a tingling feeling through my entire body a throbbing sensation planning out scenarios of this soon to be encounter. Hes so mysterious and intriguing, I cant help but wonder what hes thinking. This has me thinking what will i wear? I dont have time to get my hair done, my nails are horrible! I sit and take a deep breath, what i am is more than enough. I sink a little deeper into my chair and stare at the clock, its slowly ticking away.
By Madison Cosentino 5 years ago in Confessions
How to Pull Over a Police Officer
Parents are supposed to be embarrassing sometimes, I know, especially when we are teenagers. But when your children feel they need to wear a paper bag over their heads in public so as not to be recognized with said parent, I think things might have gone a little too far.
By Maria Calderoni5 years ago in Confessions
Project Field
PROJECT FIELD ** Notated and written by : Gary Wayne Morrison II CHAPTER 1 The project was supposed to be a project in which we investigated quantum field energy as a new energy source. volunteers were told they would be given a trial dose of an inhaled vitamin supplement with micro engineered tracking hormones in it and that by way of electromagnetic monitoring progress would be recorded.
By Gary Morrison II5 years ago in Confessions
Pop, Lock, & Drop It!
"Toot that thang up mommy make it roll..." 2007. In the middle of the dance floor. Instructed by Huey himself and clad in my cutest pair of plaid shorts. Very "in" for the era, I might add. I was popping and locking. Showing everyone what my momma gave me.
By Alexandria Hall5 years ago in Confessions
Dressed to Impress
It was the summer of Abercrombie and Fitch, ironic trucker hats, over-sized sunglasses, and Paris Hilton...and I was about to start my Freshman year of high school. I had begged and pleaded with my parents all summer to let me attend public school- promising to attend youth group meetings every Sunday, in exchange for a chance to never have to wear a uniform or follow a frumpy dress code ever again. Not to mention, my two best friends, Zoë and Olivia, were in public school and I desperately wanted to be in the same school as them.
By Danielle Hein5 years ago in Confessions
Freeing the fish was a selfish act
To misquote "Ol' Blue Eyes" aka the late Frank Sinatra in the eponymous "My Way", regrets, I've had a ton. When I saw those two beautiful, stippled fish in the bucket at Uncle Laurie and Auntie Shirley's house, my heart went out to them.
By Shirley Twist5 years ago in Confessions
Crossing Boundaries
Contrary to popular opinion, Americans are not the most well-respected foreigners abroad. Being a “USA”, according to my entry documents, Hong Kong was less than impressed with the super-charged culture clash that comes with a twenty-something-year-old American discovering herself in such an environment. I worked hard to disprove some of these notions by partaking in local rituals and learning what I could of the language. I greeted the elders and showed my respect as best I could. In the end, I really couldn’t take the American out of the girl, as it were.
By Deborah Nava5 years ago in Confessions
Stuck in a Soda Pop Bottle
When I was young, soda pop only came in bottles. One day, I thought it would be clever to show off to my siblings a trick of how I could suck my upper lip inside the bottle top of my Mr. Pibb, then let go of the bottle and stretch my arms out, holding the entire weight of that Mr. Pibb with nothing but the amazing strength of my upper lip. “Ta da!” I managed to shout with just my teeth and my lower lip. "What a marvelous accomplishment,” I gleefully thought to myself. “This will give me bragging rights over my poor, lesser-accomplished siblings!” But my bravado came to a shrieking halt when when I suddenly realized—I was stuck!
By Karla Bowen Herman5 years ago in Confessions
My Merry-go-round Fail
At recess, the boys thought it was great fun to twirl the girls faster and faster on the merry-go-round, as we held on for dear life. It was a boy's wildest dream to send a girl sailing through the air, to her demise... Of course, I was the only girl who ever forgot you should NEVER let go. I don’t 100% recall why I let go after the merry-go-round had gathered too much speed… Looking back, that was just craziness on my part!
By Karla Bowen Herman5 years ago in Confessions
