Food For Thought

Food for my family has always been a weird topic. We go through phases of healthy eating and cheating. It is a constant cycle for us. I was told things like "forever on you hips a second on your lips," or "it doesn't taste as good as skinny feels" all my life. Hearing those things made my relationship with food a little different. I? always hid when I ate food, and I still do because I am afraid I will get judged or that my mom will say something to me about how I am gaining weight. I went through a bad phase of starvation and then binge  and sometimes I would even purge or use a laxative because I was so afraid of what my mom and people would see if they saw me eating food, and bad food at that. I thankfully have gotten past that, and am working on getting better with my body and who I am as a person, thankfully I have some really great friends that have helped me and are still helping me to this day. I am still working on my body image and my body but I am doing it in a healthy way with exercise and a good diet. My friends and I go to workouts together and go on clean eating challenges, and support and help each other. I have come to find a love for food and working out and I am becoming a happier, healthier, and more pleasant person in my life and other peoples.

Children's Story Draft

Pretty Penny Penguin and the Recess Queen



It was a usual sunny day in the north pole and Pretty Penny Penguin went out to play 

She climbed, and swung, jumped and hung, running around the playground

She was about to get onto the monkey bars when she was shoved out of the way

She whipped around and standing before her was Susie Seal. Penny yelled out "Hey!"

"Watch it Penguin, better be careful,  or someone will come and getcha!"

So Pretty Penny Penguin left the monkey bars and went to the slide when she tripped over a foot and fell down the slide head first 

From the top of the slide Susie Seal yelled " watch it penguin, better be careful, or someone will come and getcha!"

Penny ran from the slide crying and went to the swing by herself when she was swinging back and forth someone came up behind her and  pushed her hard off the swing. 

She went flying off the swing and landed with a hard thud on the ground 

And Susie said "Watch it penguin, better be careful, or someone will come and getcha" 

Penny had, had enough! "Susie Seal, stop being mean you are not the recess queen. You cannot push, and shove, trip, or speak of these hurtful words. We can share the playground! You and me, we can have fun just you wait and see!"

The next day Pretty Penny Penguin and Susie Seal went to the monkey bars together, laughing and skipping all across the playground. The recess queen had found a new friend!

Author Bio

Madison Albert is an new children's book author, but has already got her foot in the door. Growing up she loved to ready Judy Blume and Robert N. Munsch. Some of her favorite books include, If You Give a Mouse A Cookie and Love you Forever. She grew up in Springfield MO, and graduated from Kickapoo High School, continuing her education at Missouri state University. She hopes to become an established author and create her own line of popular children's books. Her books are based off of lessons that she learned throughout her childhood.

Books For Kids

Caps For Sale by: Esphyr Slobodkina

Esphyr was a talented painter, sculptor, designer, author-illustrator, teacher, and amateur architect. On the cover a man is sleeping on a tree with a stack of caps on the ground and monkeys peeking out from behind the tree. There are 39 pages. The setting at the beginning is of a small town, the story ends at a tree. The book is about a man who is having a hard time selling the caps so he takes a nap. Then monkeys take his hat and he wakes up and tries to get them back. There are animal characters in the back, a lesson is being taught, there are adult characters, and lots of illustrations with color, there is one phrase that is repeated 'Caps! caps for sale! Fifty cents a cap! The book is targeted around toddlers. I used to love this book as a little kid.   

Childhood Questions

4. I always had my best friend by my side growing up. We had been best friends since we were born. She was a day older than me. We went to preschool together and when we started elementary school we still hung out all the time, we were inseparable. We did everything together. Then middle school came around and we started to drift apart and get closer to the friends that we had made. I was a cheerleader and she did swimming. But we still hung out and did things together. Now its high school, and I can't remember the last time that we hung out, it has been forever. When we see each other in the hallway we say high and catch up a little. She is a life long friend she will always have that history with me that I can't make with anyone else. She is going to the same college as me so who knows maybe we will we kindle our friendship there?

9. There are lots of things that I know about my family that I wish I could pretend that I never found out, and still live in harmony. As a little kid I always could tell that something wasn't right. My mom and dad acted different than other parents. They were always drinking, but when I stayed at other parents houses I didn't see them drink. It's funny the things kids pick up on but parents think they don't. I wish I didn't know how crooked and messed up my grandparents were, both sides of grandparents. I wish I didn't know what it was like to lose a family member, even though they didn't die.

13. My favorite toy was a doll I was given when I was born. I named her after my big sisters best friend Tessa. I carried her around everywhere. She got so worn out and tattered that one day her leg fell off and we had to sew it back on. I took that doll to church, the grocery store, preschool, road trips, and I slept with her. That doll did not leave my side. 

21. As a child I was the happiest thing, I always had a smile on my face. I would wake up with a smile on my face, and it took a lot to make it go away. Now I have had some pretty bad things happen to me in my life that have taken my innocence away, I still smile all the time, but I have my days that will remind me of my past and what happened in it and it can easily upset me. I am more afraid to do things because I'm worried about what might happen, I am insecure, and I have a really hard time trusting people. I am trying, and have dedicated this year to be the year that I try and move on and get back to the person that I use to be. I miss t

Inspired Artist's

I enter into the gates of heaven

unsure of what is to come up ahead, I walk forward

A shining light shines in the far distance and a sound of beautiful angles singing in the choir

As I approach the light I see a rainbow and a throne

upon that thrown is he sits

all powerful he is glowing, almost to bright to look at 

I have made it

I kneel to the ground prepared to answer the questions he has

But he doesn't ask any instead he stands and approaches me

before telling me to return to my home, today it not the day I enter heaven 

The princess has been locked in the tower

The same tower as the big red dragon

If she wakes the dragon no good will come of it. 

Suddenly a gust of fire is seen from the top of the tower. 

The Princess is in trouble! Someone has to go up and save her

I rush to the top of the tower to see her in the had of the dragon

I fight with all of my might, poking and prodding at the dragon with my sword

It starts to get tired and weak 

I go in for the kill and I stand on top and spear him once and for all

I have defeated the dragon and saved the princess

Hopper-Inspired Writing

Driving away. Speeding out of town, as far as I can go. Not knowing where I want to go I just drive straight, trying to forget what I'm leaving behind. Looking at the ring on my finger I slide it off and set it in my cup holder, as a tear rolls down my face. He doesn't love you anymore I told myself, he cheated on you. he loves her, you are not in his life.

I pull off into a nearby gas station to calm myself down, tears are streaming down my face. I go inside to get some food and drinks for the trip I'm about to take. When I go to check out I get a look of pity from woman behind the counter. I quickly grab my items, throwing the cash on the counter to cover the cost, and rush to my car. Throwing it in reverse I speed out of the gas station and get back on the road, not anymore emotionally stable than I was before.

I drive for a couple more minutes when I pass the sign "Welcome to California," it says. I had made it, there was no going back now. I reach over to open my package of peachio's when out of nowhere I hear a car horn. I whip back up to the wheel but all I can see is headlights headed straight toward me. Then everything goes black.