Doing the Research

In high school I took a research writing class. I loved it! I enjoyed doing research, especially on something that really interested me.  I guess in high school I was considered a bit of a new age hippy. I was the girl who had wished she had gotten to go to Woodstock and lived in San Francisco. I loved the Grateful Dead, Led Zepplin and the Doors. I grew up listening to Carole King and Bob Seagar and still love all of this music. Anyways, I remember I did a paper on singers of the 60's. I loved getting research all of my favorite singers. It's a cool thing when you get to read into the life of people that interest you. Everyone has a story.


When I took this class I was in 9th grade it was the early 90's. This was when the Internet first really became available. It was the coolest thing to be able to go the computer and search for anything that interested you. I did the majority of this paper on Jim Morrison. I had just watched the Doors Movie for the first time and remember thinking Jim Morrison was a very troubled and odd person, but he made some really good music. I really wanted to know more about him and what kind of life he had lived as a child and what had made him so strange.


 I still to this day love to research things. I have always been interested in the holocaust and have done a lot of research and read a great deal on the subject. Researching interesting subjects has always been something I have enjoyed and continue to do a lot of it to this day. Every time I hear a subject that sounds interesting I go straight to my computer and look it up. I also have Netflix; I look up a lot of documentaries. Documentaries are a great source of reseach. I think my most recent was about the Congo. Things you would never imagine happening in this world are happening right now.

Importance of Parenting

I would say being a good mom is something that is important to every mother. I remember when I was pregnant with my daughter I would get overwhelmed thinking about things that I wanted and thought I needed to do to be a good mom.

Being a good mom is something that is extremely important to me. I am now a mom of a teenager and everything has now changed.  Not only am I worried about her brushing her teeth and doing well in school, but I worry about her being able to talk to me, I worry about her hanging out with the wrong people, and I am really worried about her getting her drivers license. There are so many things in our world that can steer a child the wrong way and lead them down a devastating path. This is the last thing I want for my daughter.

Communication is very important when you are a mom of a teenage girl. The last thing I want is for her to feel as if she cannot talk to me. I want to hear about her first kiss and the fights she is having with her friends. I feel that her being able to talk to me about uncomfortable topics is good. If she doesn't talk to me about sex and drugs; then she is going to talk to someone else about it. This is what I don't want.

Having a good relationship with my children is something that is very, very important to me. I want my children to know that they can count on me to be their for them to talk to and not be judged. They also need to know though, that they will not always like what I have to say in response, but that is what a parent is about.

The Glass Castle

 The Glass Castle, was one of the best books I have read. I love reading and try doing as much of it as I can. I have read a few books and many of them have been true stories and memoirs. These are my favorite kinds of books to read. This book was absolutely, phenomenal. The way Jeannette Walls wrote her story was great. The stories she told were so ridiculous that you would never believe they were true. Through the whole book I kept saying to myself, "I cannot believe someone actually lived this story." The things she, herself and her brother and sisters lived through and the ways they lived; it's amazing they survived through it all. But, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. The Walls children ended up pretty well. I have already downloaded Jeannette Walls' other book; Half Broken Horses, onto my NOOK and can't wait to read it.