“Watching my Mom go Away”
My name is Bianca Ontiveros the only girl out of four children that my lovely mother had. As tears run down my ...
2013
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The Wig
I was nine years old when my Grammie came to live with us! She gave up her teaching career, her house, and her ...
The Perfect Story
When I was young, my older sister would babysit me. She had a babysitting kit, a carefully decorated box that she ...
The Match of a Lifetime
I met my best friend Jack in seventh grade. It was at a school dance, and amid the movement of young dancers and ...
Strangely Beautiful
A few years ago I would have thought my greatest achievement would be surviving cancer. Now I see that yet another ...
Listen
One day in August 2010, my mother told my brother, father, and me that she thought she had cancer. A shocking ...
Life Lessons & Silk Underpants
In my first week of Journalism class, I became the most hated writer in the school. My first piece was an opinion ...
Dreams can pass through Cancer
I used to live in North Ethiopia, Gonder where it was hotter than the capital city Addis Abeba. Gonder is the ...
Deteriorate
Have you ever met an independent woman? The kind that wants separate banking from her husband, could live on her ...
Be Your Bravest!
I first noticed something was wrong with Steve my Step dad when were goofing off one night. Sitting at opposite ...
Backspace
I am embarrassed to write this essay.
I feel myself hesitate, fingers wavering suspended in midair over ebony ...
3 to 11 Months
It started out subtle, but eventually my family could tell that something was seriously wrong. For months my ...