Nirdy

I jumped in with both feet, while my head was still in the clouds. I fell to fast- I hung on to tight- I stayed to long- There was danger and heartbreak around every corner, still, I hung on- I hung on to the dream of a love like no other. You and me against the world! Isn’t that the way it is supposed to be? To protect AND love one another? --- I have to wonder- does it exist? We live in a world today where nothing is cherished, and all is easily lost. We don’t or can’t value what we already have- we go out looking for more. Many times not curing the craving that we had, we just create more empty feelings. Where are the gre

                                    In The End She lay there in her bed, too weak to even sit up. Her family stood all around her hospital bed. She hadn’t been able to eat or drink for several days, and was going in and out of consciousness. In her youth she had been a beautiful, vibrant woman who loved life and was still trying to hold on to every second she could, but her body will not allow much more time; no more boisterous laughs, no more warm smiles, and no more words of encouragement. Death was knocking at her door; a door she refused to answer. Her doctor opened the door to her room and stepped in. Her family stepped aside t

I believe when we lose a loved one in life, they are not really gone. They stay with us helping and comforting us when we are struggling. I was fourteen when my dad passed away. It was very sudden. He was driving one of those gravel trucks we all see on the roads here and there. My dad had been driving a cab-over semi with a gravel trailer on the back. It was a hot day, July 25th 1989; there was no air conditioning in his truck. He had been hauling gravel up and down the same road for days. There was a set of railroad tracks several miles down the road; he had gone over them back and forth and never saw a single train all day; therefore he

It was early spring, still cold enough to want to wear a sweatshirt, but nice and warm if you sat in the sun. I was 20 years old and on my own, along with my boyfriend, Tony, who had a job as an over-the-road truck driver. I had been on the road with my boyfriend for a couple of weeks; we were on our way to drop a load off at Northern California. After we dropped the load off, we found a place to park the trailer. My boyfriend had asked his boss for a few days off, and his boss agreed, so we started to bob tail going west. Neither of us had been to Northern California before; everything we were about to see was all new to us. We were on our