George F. Will
Given that there was less than two weeks before the start of school, Starks knew she needed to enlist help.1. What got Brittany Starks to offer her hair braiding service? A.A post on Facebook. B.Her friend’s timely help. C.Her mother’s advice. D.A trip to her kids’ school.2...
I had planned on having him join band in 5th grade, and learn how to play a wind instrument like I did. But Ian is intent on blazing his own path and he found a different way to start music. At the beginning of third grade, Ian came home from school one day with a flyer about ...
My mother sits behind me, braiding my hair into twin plaits as I am drawn deeper into the story. Talk of Jedi and strange powers goes over my head as she pulls and twists my ’fro into submission. When she drags me towards our kitchen and the walls that block my view of the televisi...
Rachel Hillestad hasn't perfected the art of French braiding her daughters' hair. She doesn't serve organic, free-range chicken for dinner. And for her four kids' first day of school, she didn't photograph them posing with cute chalkboards listing their ages and heights, as she saw some...
which of his eight children he will take with him to the county fair. My mother, of course, will not go. She is knocked out from getting most of us ready: I hold my neck stiff against the pressure of her knuckles as she hastily completes the braiding and the ribboning of my hair....
in1947.Myfather,afat,funnymanwithbeautifuleyesandasubversivewit,istryingtodecidewhichofhiseightchildrenhewilltakewithhimtothecountyfair.Mymother,ofcourse,willnotgo.Sheisknockedoutfromgettingmostofusready:Iholdmyneckstiffagainstthepressureofherknucklesasshehastilycompletesthebraidingandtheribboningofmyhair....
Feeling that he was an uncommon7 type of man (if people would only see it), he resolved to remove this second difficulty first. The saw-mill and the castle side by side did not rise up and frighten him, and for the time he succeeded in not thinking about Colonel Abinger. Nothing is...