One of the best days of my life was volunteering for the Special Olympics. In college, a day was set aside specifically for volunteer opportunities. You could choose whatever project you wanted, but many students were encouraged to help at the Special Olympics, which was held on campus. My first volunteer year, I didn’t want …
I hate camping. I don’t like the bugs, the cold, the rain, and especially sleeping on the ground – give me a nice, warm hotel room any day of the week. But what freaks me out most about camping, are the ghost stories. Camping – Story Time My dad used to gather all the little …
I looked like an idiot. During baseball tryouts, I made myself stand out in the worst possible way. During a simple running drill, I messed up. The coach had us spread out and line up at each base. People at home would run to second, and people on first would run to third and so …
Baseball players are cheaters. During tryouts for my high school baseball team, I realized everyone succeeded by cheating. And it made me furious. Cheaters – Tryouts The first day of tryouts was nothing but running. I knew this ahead of time. There had been a team meeting in February, as the coach told us not …
I broke my arm once. The strange thing was, it didn’t hurt. I was playing first base in a baseball game. It was the first game of the year, in the first inning, with one out – and let’s pretend the score was 1-1 and the batter’s count was 1-1 too, just to keep the …
Everyone wants to write a book. Why? A recent statistic found 3 out of 5 people wanted to write a book at some point in their life. That’s a staggeringly huge number. There are over 7 billion people in the world – that means 4.2 billion want to write a book. Do we even have …
I played with Legos wrong. I didn’t like constructing the Lego sets – like a normal person would – instead, I’d let them fight. My parents bought me tons of Legos and it was awesome. My favorites were the medieval knights and forest woodsmen. Since they lived in the same “world,” I’d pit them in …
I’m a famous author. Or, at least I used to be. In elementary school I wrote a best-selling book called The Superhero Book. It was amazing, and shot me to stratospheric heights of local celebrity fame. Superhero – Doodle Me and my friend co-authored the book. One day, we were doodling imaginary superheroes on scrap …
Growing up, I liked Disney a lot. What kid doesn’t? It’s full of fun and magic. It’s an escape from your normal humdrum life to something unique and special. I loved everything about Disney – except for one terrifying thing: The Haunted Mansion. That ride freaked me out. Fear – Hate I hated the Haunted …
I saw a kid get hit by a car. I was backing out of my driveway and saw two kids bombing down the hill behind me on bikes. I waited for them to pass, because they were flying. They continued to cruise, down the middle of the street, and toward an intersection. “They’re not going …