First Breath

Author's Note: That first breath of your newborn child, remember that day? The joy when you hear that your child has taken that first breath. Well this story has a little twist in it: instead of that healthy child you have a child that's not breathing, until one miracle came and saved every body's lives.

Remember that first breath of your child, either it went perfectly or there was tragedy when the doctor walks in the room with the news you really don’t want to hear. Well this book is that book. Peace Like A River, Leif Enger will keep you waiting at the edge of your seat with his  dramatic, breathtaking, emotional stories.

Imagine being in the delivery room and having your kid with some of these problems asthma, croup, pneumonia and just regular lung problems. But Reuben was a special baby. Normally there is that slight possibility that those miracle won’t happen. Like I said Reuben had that family that really cared about him. That’s when his family started to pray and wish for that one big miracle.

As you read and try to figure out that Reuben doesn’t believe in miracles, but I think that nobody should say that. I mean look at all the women in the delivery room that pray that their baby is healthy and that the newborn is breathing. Look how it turns out they wish for those miracles and they come out of that delivery room with a healthy newborn. See miracles really do happen.

Struggling, failure, misfortune there are so many words to describe this family and how hard they had it. Leif Enger in his book Peace Like a River really makes that point that miracles really do happen, no matter how big that problem is even like saving a child's life.

Haunting the Night

 Author's Note: Have you ever felt like you've dug a huge hole and you just can't get out. Well in this little town of Mukwonago has really felt all the suspense and stress. Before the town was full of stress they have seen more than they have usually seen.

Living in a little town that was known for mythical creatures coming alive and haunting the night is described in the fictitious attention grabber written by Riyan Daniel Littlefield. Place of the Bear is a book that will cause you to be at the edge of seat waiting to see what comes next.

Suspense: to worry about something. You could just feel the suspense in this little town, the worrying and the stress. Imagine this event as a 17 year old, completely innocent from harm. Phantom Lake, nobody knew that it was haunted until one girl stopped by and for a few seconds she was there but then she was....gone. Nobody knows what happened to her.  As if you could fell the worrying and the anxiety, “I am next? What happens if I am?” That’s the way the people think today. They get so concerned about the little thing in life, and don’t think about all the big thing and how those only last so long.

As the town dug a huge hole and stuck themselves into suspense, it lead into stress. As the stress grew, and grew more people tried to relax themselves but it just didn’t work out. Just think about the people trying to relax, doesn’t that sound a lot like us we worry about too many things, just take a break. But as the town kept on worrying they just kept on feeling this anxiety there was so many things to do about it, but yet nobody did anything. During the day more people started to walk by Phantom lake which they thought would help the stress, but more people just keep on disappearing one by one. Sooner or later this place will just be knew as a little haunted town.

Anticipation and anxiety are feelings that people get when they are waiting. Riyan Daniel Littlefield, in his book Place of the Bear shows reader that feelings can change our lives. People shouldn’t let difficulty take control of their lives.

Ohh The Colors You Will See

Author's Note - Google images, an app that you get it doesn't matter matter where you get the picture, but what really matters is if it speaks to you as much as this picture did to me. The thing is I found it on Google images and it really spoke to me, because I'm that person that likes the late night drives with really pretty scenery. But this picture really can cheer up any type of person.



A fall Scenery



 Even though I found it on Google images, it really spoke to me. Just because it’s fall doesn’t mean this is the prettiest picture ever. Imagine you being in this picture. Imagine you taking this picture or even being placed in this picture. I would be the happiest person ever if I could have a chance to go into this picture. But I hope this picture could speak to you the way it did for me.

The Heartbroken Boombox

 Author's Note: This is love song. A song from a boombox point of view. Have you ever felt left alone or abused by your girlfriend or boyfriend, but as you listen to this song think about it, did they really mean to do that to you. A boombox that only felt love one way and that way was being abused and left alone.

[Adam Levine]
My heart's a stereo
It beats for you, so listen close
Hear my thoughts in every note
Make me your radio
Turn me up when you feel low
This melody was meant for you
Just sing along to my stereo

[Travie McCoy]
If I was just another dusty record on the shelve
Would you blow me off and play me like everybody else
If I ask you to scratch my back, could you manage that
Like it read well, check it Travie, I can handle that
Furthermore, I apologize for any skipping tracks
Its just the last girl that played me left a couple cracks
I used to used to used to used to, now I'm over that
Cause holding grudges over love is ancient artifacts
If I could only find a note to make you understand
I'd sing it softly in your ear and grab you by the hand
Just Keep it stuck inside your head, like your favorite tune
And know my heart is a stereo that only plays for you

[Chorus]
My heart's a stereo
It beats for you, so listen close
Hear my thoughts in every note
Make me your radio
Turn me up when you feel low
This melody was meant for you
Just sing along to my stereo
Oh oh oh oh To my stereo
Oh oh oh oh So sing along to my stereo

[Travie McCoy]
If I was an old school, fifty pound boombox
Would you hold me on your shoulder, wherever you walk
Would you turn my volume up before of the cops
And crank it higher everytime they told you to stop

And all I ask is that you don't get mad at me
When you have to purchase mad D batteries
Appreciate every mixtape your friends make
You never know we come and go like we're on the interstate
I think finally found a note to make you understand
If you can hear it, sing along and take me by the hands
Keep myself inside your head, like your favorite tune
And know my heart is a stereo that only plays for you

[Chorus]
My heart's a stereo
It beats for you, so listen close
Hear my thoughts in every note
Make me your radio
Turn me up when you feel low
This melody was meant for you
Just sing along to my stereo
Oh oh oh oh To my stereo
Oh oh oh oh So sing along to my stereo

[Bridge]
I only pray you never leave me behind
Because good music can be so hard to find
I take your head and hold it closer to mine
Thought love was dead, but now you're changing my mind

[Chorus]
My heart's a stereo
It beats for you, so listen close
Hear my thoughts in every note
Make me your radio Turn me up when you feel low
This melody was meant for you
Just sing along to my stereo
Oh oh oh oh To my stereo
Oh oh oh oh So sing along to my stereo


 My hearts a stereo and it beats for you. That's the part that really caught my attention, because think about it. It's a song about a boombox. Another part that really caught my attention was "Make me your radio and turn me up when you feel low" See think about it imagine this not song not being about a boombox, I mean you still would get the point of this song but not as well as you would get it with a boombox point of view

Pain is Temporary

Author’s Note - As you read this quotes it talks about you pain and how is temporary. When you read this you will think to yourself as say “am I quitter or do I think about my pain.”

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."

 by Lance Armstrong 

 As I read though this quote it got me to think, do I think about my pain to much or am I a quitter? Do I really deserve for my pain to be subsided by something else? I think as you read this you will think again. I mean just think about although people that have felt pain and they got over it. This question will make you think twice about who you call a quitter or a person that thinks about his pain to much. I hope this quote speaks to you as much as it did to me.

Just Another Pretty Face

Author's Note: Just being another pretty face is really hard. But this story will really make you think twice on who you call just another pretty face. Being a blue blouse that gets thrown back on the rack doesn't mean it's the end of the world; maybe that person will come back for you. Who knows?

Here I am in American Eagle where the coolest trends are, it’s just a few days before Christmas, wait...wait hold on this could be the girl of my dreams, OMG yes it is, it’s the girl of my dreams. It’s a Christmas miracle. I knew that this day would come. Before I knew it she was coming right toward me, while her mom was looking at a pair of jeans.....yucky. Anyways as she was walking up toward me she shouted to her mom and said “MOM, MOM come here and look at this, it’s really pretty, and it has my size.” As her mom came racing over here she said “why don’t you try it on?”

So Maria and I walked into a changing room. As quickly as you could say raspberry cheesecake it was on. See I was a blue blouse with some red and orange flowers and some more colors but as she put it on she looked at it and said “is this really me or do I have to find something that is more me, but the thing is I like it but it’s too expensive” She decided to call her mom for help because she really knows what’s going on. “Hey, mom I need your help, with something.” She came in just seconds after I called her. “Do you like this top or should I put it back on the rack, I don’t know I think I should it’s just not my style. “ Like I said she put me on the rack even before you could say raspberry cheesecake. I take it back it wasn’t a Christmas miracle. Wow, its 3 days before Christmas and will I ever be bought? This could be the worst Christmas ever. I would rather have a bigger lady buy me, than her.

 Well its Christmas Eve and I still haven’t been bought yet. Great!, Hey look who it is, its the mom who’s daughter put me back on the rack and she was heading right toward me. She pick me and took me to the checkout counter. She BOUGHT ME. She took me home and raped me up in raping paper and put me under the Christmas tree   

CHRISTMAS MORNING

8:00 A.M

“Maria I think this one is for you.” My mom handed me the gift and started to rip open the gift. Before I when it I saw the American Eagle box and I couldn’t believe it. I tore off the top of the box and there it was the shirt of my dreams, I threw the shirt on, and you could tell that I was pretty excited. She loves me, I never thought that this day would come. But it was total worth being under the Christmas tree for one day. “Hey mom can I wear this shirt tomorrow in school. “Of course you can, I don’t see why you can’t, and from this day forward I will never forget this Christmas miracle

Christmas Toys

 Author's Note -The first gift was given to you. You rip it open like you just don't care. The Christmas spirit and the great memories, that you will remember for the rest of your life

C - Christmas Cheer while opening presents
H - Having a great time with your family
R - Raising the Christmas tree
I - In the winter snow
S - Singing to your neighbors
T - Tingling toes
M - Missing family
A - Asking for Christmas cookies
S - Santa sending presents

T - Talking and Talking
O - Old stale cookies
Y - Yelling in the winter snow
S - Super fun to play with