By: Teresa Ringholz | 2010-05-30 | Writing & Speaking It''s another school day in the 3rd grade and I am getting dressed. Wardrobe choice is not a problem because I am required to wear a uniform daily. This uniform still fits me, but just barely because I seem to be growing very quickly nowadays. read more
By: Janna Lutz | 2010-06-02 | Writing & Speaking PART ONE: Last September I was hired by a company that required me to wear closed-toe shoes . For read more
By: PS Gifford | 2010-06-01 | Writing & Speaking The Great Shoe Caper This is a true account, none of the names or facts have been changed to read more
By: Marijoyce Porcelli | 2010-06-01 | Writing & Speaking feeling and stumbling through the dark to the bathroom and tripped over a stray tennis shoe , mine, which read more
By: Ben Brodrick | 2010-06-04 | Writing & Speaking killing me; these new shoes are totally wrong for me. Hell, even my mouth is hurting! All day long I read more
By: Rachel Scritchfield | 2010-06-04 | Writing & Speaking pairs of shoes , nine suit cases, assorted munchies, a bag full of dvd''s, credit cards, debit cards read more
By: Miles Demars-Rote | 2010-06-01 | Writing & Speaking My stubborn eyes open with regret as they stare at an unfamiliar, vaulted ceiling, while my body aches with remorse and an all too familiar feeling. I slowly sit up with seasoned deliberation in such trying manners and begin to survey my surroundings. read more
By: Tony Donell | 2010-06-02 | Writing & Speaking I am always amused by sport''s announcers unabashed used of scholarly hyperbole to describe an athletic performance. "Wow Mike, Iversen''s passing was brilliant!" "I know, Al, but the coach showed real genius putting Snow in the lineup in this situation!" I love basketball. read more
By: Melissa Adams | 2010-05-30 | Writing & Speaking Don''t do it, don''t do it, don''t do it... I am thinking as I stand behind a woman in Starbucks who is eyeing the biggest pastry I have ever seen. She is, by no means, a small woman and I am sure she spends many nights torturing herself over this fact. read more
By: Katherine Lockett | 2010-06-04 | Writing & Speaking Fat, Farty Foot-slogging There are a lot of runners'' blogs out in cyberspace these days. Huge chunks of diarised running schedules, times, distances, training suggestions, races to aim for. The one thing that most of these earnest blogs have in common is that they lack a sense of humour. read more
By: Gloria Allen | 2010-06-04 | Writing & Speaking Although no longer a runner - finding the constant pounding of my joints unpleasant, I consider myself a good observer of the sport. There are as many different types of running styles as well as gaits that no doubt aspire to greater speed. read more
By: Toni Thompson | 2010-06-04 | Writing & Speaking Vegetable ABCs: How I Became a Veg-apprecia-tarian. . Another Wellness Intern program. The wellness interns, in their three month tenure, provide creative health-focused programs for the employees of our children''s hospital. read more
By: Andrew Jantzer | 2010-06-03 | Writing & Speaking Down and to the Right Whenever my family set up the screen and projector and plowed through the several hundred 35mm slides that is the record of my infancy, the photo of my father''s feet was one of my favorites. read more
By: Ken Reetz | 2010-06-02 | Writing & Speaking Superman Courts Lois Lois hurried into the kitchen to escape his stare and turned on the cold water to rinse the embarrassment from her face. She couldn''t imagine what she must have been thinking when she invited him up for coffee, it was almost 2:00 a.m. read more
By: Gary Gagne | 2010-05-29 | Writing & Speaking How to do DC on a shoestring (Death by squirrel) Outside of going to work and a weekly shopping trip, I never leave the house ,really. So it rocked my world when my wife decided to go to Argentina for or a visit with her family. read more
By: Elizabeth Stephan | 2010-06-03 | Writing & Speaking In an experiment doomed to fail, I decided to make Black and White Cookies for my son''s classroom bake sale. This task seems harmless enough from the outside. Simply bake some cookies, frost them and deliver them to the classroom moms the following morning. Nothing turned out as planned. read more
By: A. S. Maulucci | 2010-05-31 | Writing & Speaking How to Write Humorous Poetry Not only can poetry be fun, it can be funny. You can create humor out read more
By: Carel Two-Eagle | 2010-06-04 | Writing & Speaking have a sense of humor , therefore, they are intelligent beings. It is that simple. I raised horses for read more
By: Gary C. Gibson | 2010-05-29 | Writing & Speaking Writing on the humor of liberation on Veterans Day 2009 affords the opportunity to appreciate how read more