Dreams seemed so much bigger when I was a kid. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an ice skater, a singer, and then, perhaps more realistically, a vet. But I remember my dad telling me that people-doctors made more money so I should probably do that instead.

In elementary and middle school, I realized that most all of my talents were in writing. Most people have a variety of hobbies and interests and talents that they pursue, but writing is truly the only thing that I have stuck w

It was a cool August morning in Georgia. The sun wasn't even up yet. I was currently attending Airborne School at Ft. Benning as part of my army training. It was the first day of jump week. I felt no emotion. My class was filled mostly with cadets but there were a few other soldiers from military bases around the world. We made our way to the rock pit to begin our parachute landing falls. It was a necessary nuisance to induce muscle memory. "Check canopy and gain canopy control.." the cadre yel

Throughout my entire life, and the lives of others, I can make a general assumption that the more of an education you had, the more educated of a person you are. And while this can be very true, I also know that it isn't. I know some very smart people who are very dumb, and some very dumb people who are very smart. What brings this up though?

Last night in my internal relations class, we watched bits and pieces of a documentary called Saudi Solutions (and I recommend this movie to an

In regards to the recent Sandy Hook tragedy, my views on guns laws/rights have not changed. We have been witnesses to violence time and time again. When a person chooses to go on a murderous rampage, we are all affected, whether it is indirectly or directly. We don’t have to lose someone to such a hideous crime to be able to understand what these families are going through. Nonetheless I believe in the United States Constitution, therefore I don’t believe a persons right to legally bear arms sh

“Sticks and stones can break my bones but words….? Words can do all sorts of things... Whether or not we believe the words, they do their work.” ~H.H


“If I ever get so big that I take up 2 seats on mass transit, or have to sit sideways on the single seats….tell my fat greedy ass to stop eating…You so fat you only joined facebook because you heard they put cookies on your computer:...and You so fat you walked into the Gap and filled it”

There are fat jokes that stret

Fahad Siddiqui
Mrs. Pinto
Web Design
7 December 2012
Be the Change: Racial Profiling
America is a nation where people of all ethnicities and religion come together as one and create the “United” States. However, one factor that has made our nation not- “united” is racism and racial profiling. Slavery first started in our nation in 1619 when we seemed to think that Africans were less than human. This absurd idea lasted until January 1863 when the Emancipation Proclamati

I've recently been put in charge of the websites Pinterest account. I've never used Pinterest but all my friends do. I've been playing with the account for about two weeks now and I love it! I'm always on it, completely addicted. It's terrible I know. I still don't know everything about it but I'm slowly getting there.

This is a totally new learning experience. Social media has become a big part of life now since the start of the new millennium. Did you know that we have found out m

As I sit here, I think, think, and think some more about life. Life is a crazy thing that you have to figure out on your own. There is not a book to tell how to live it. I often find myself petrified that I will fail at living life, and that I will never find my worth. The sense of not being worth something eats at me. It makes me feel like hope is just a word and nothing to live by. The feeling that days do not get brighter and nights just keep getting darker creep in and out of my mind. I ha

My Love For You (part2)

Last night I dreamed about our first born who is our only daughter. In fact all the other children we have are boys. We call our daughter ‘Our Angel’ because in many ways she is very special to us. So I was going to write her story as I also intend to write the stories of all the other children we have because after all, they all have their own very special story and to us they are all very special in their own individual way. But I realized that it would b

"All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth. " - Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is one of those phenomena that has preached peace, but continues in violence, that has emphasized righteousness, but has led to deceit and greed, that has taught serenity and happiness, but has ended in anger and disappointment. Religions all over the world are seeing this once extraordinary and importan