“I had just been sitting around thinking my life sucks. The Outdoor Adventure Program kicked me in the butt. It made me realize that just because I have a spinal cord injury doesn’t mean I have to stop doing everything.” - Jasmine Parr
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Half an hour until I need to drop Aminah off at school and my watch is ticking. I’ve just opened a can of fruit and poured cereal for breakfast when two deliverymen knock on the door. Our old washer broke yesterday. With a two- and five-year-old potty training, a broken washer is like losing my best friend.
Our dryer quit working a few months ago and it took over a month to fix. Last night I went to bed certain Nolah, the two-year-old, and I will become far too friendly with the laundromat for my sanity. ...
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The Big Issue—read by more than 670,000 people weekly throughout the United Kingdom—supports homeless and vulnerably housed people across the country. Bird himself was homeless when he was five, so he knows too well that homeless people need more than just money. “I want to find a solution that doesn’t involve giving people handouts,” Bird says. The key to solving homelessness, he believes, is to help people to help themselves.
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Brats: These sausages are a Midwest staple in the summertime and they are fantastic. There is a little bit of crunch as you break through the casing before the delicious juices and flavor burst into your mouth. Trust me, your taste buds will not be disappointed.
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Metaphor: a word or phrase used in an imaginative way to represent or stand for something else. A transferring to one word the sense of another. A figure of speech founded on the resemblance which one object is supposed to bear in some respect, to another, and by which a word is transferred from an object to which it properly belongs to another, in such a manner that a comparison is implied though not formally expressed.
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