My glasses, gifted from my grandma cracked. ... I opened the door and I was more nervous than I had ever been as I saw my dad watching the football game with not a care in the world with a beer in his left hand and the remote control on the other, I looked at him and saw things I hadnt noticed before such as how his eyes where black like he hadnt been getting sleep. ...

• Word Count: 990
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The relationship between mothers and daughters is awesome in so many ways and could never be duplicated. It can, however be fictionalized as in the novel Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells. Wells takes her readers through a journey of joy, sorrow, pain, and happiness between a w...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School