Stuck - A Memoir
It was Christmas Eve morning and my cat Sweetpea was laying on my legs purring. We were going to church that morning so I had to get ready.
“I have to get moving cat.” I didn’t think she could hear me, because hello, she’s a cat. I push her off and she meows at me. “I’m sorry I have to get ready.” So she jumps of my bed and goes out to the living room.
“Sweetpea!” My Mom calls for her and she came immediately. I hear the door open. She probably went outside. I finish getting ready and my mom and I head to church. When we get back from church, my mom calls for Sweetpea. She doesn’t come.
“That’s weird, usually she comes running when we call for her.” I say.
“We’ll call for her again before we go to Grandma’s.” My mom says.
The day goes on and I get ready to go to my Grandma’s house and when it's time to go, I call for her again.
“Sweetpea! Sweetpea!” She doesn’t come. I stand there for a while just watching for her. Maybe she got stuck in some barbwire in the field across the street, maybe someone took her, great last minute Christmas gift. I hope she’s OK. Our other cat Sake (Sock-ie) comes over to me and rubs against my leg. “Sake go find Sweetpea.” I say, and push her outside. She probably won’t be able to find her, but I hope she can. When we get back from my Grandma’s house, it was late and Sake was at the door but not Sweetpea. I let Sake inside and call for Sweetpea again. She doesn’t come.
“It's late Em, we’ll find her in the morning, and
It was a very snowy day in the historic sight of Washington D.C. With all the buildings and monuments. So many people walking about. It was so much fun being with my friends when suddenly I see a small figure huddled by a trash bin. I said bye to my friends and walked over to this figure. When just then I notice it is a German Shepherd puppy! When I approached it it jumped right into my arms!
“Alisha wake up, we are here,” I whispered. When she didn’t wake up, I continued to pester her. “Come on, get up!” When I started to annoy her, she pushed me and told me to go away. As we all cleared out of the minivan, I was greeted by Judy, grandpa’s Scottish terrier. As I was petting her black fur, she was barking and jumping on my legs. When she ran over to Callie to receive a belly rub, I said hi to grandpa and gave him a hug. After getting settled in, my sisters and I decided to go to sleep because it was late and we’d have to help unpack the rest of our belongings in the
My second memory was in the back yard. I was playing with a tennis ball. I told her to go get it when I told her she listened and got it. I was full of joy when she did that. She was a pet that
“Drew, you know grandma loved you so, so much,” my mom tells me in the most heartbroken tone, one which I had heard only once before when my grandpa had died.
“Rose, come up for dinner!” I heard my mom shout from upstairs in the dining hall. I headed up stairs, but I thought that I saw my kitten on the
I answered. “Mija, where’s your grandma? Go get her now! It’s important.” that’s all I remembered from that phone call, but the moment I handed my grandmother the phone I saw her bright smile turn into the world’s most darkest frown. Out of the speck of my eyes, I saw small tears running down her face, with big worries she ran quickly to get a sweater and her purse.
“YO!! I am home!” I shouted into my mom’s new house. After I said that I heard the sobbing and the heartbreak coming from my mom’s room. My mom came down to greet me with tears in her eyes.
It was the day of Thanksgiving, we were going to my grandma and grandpa’s house. When we arrived there, the food wasn’t quite done, but the smell of the turkey, potatoes, and the rest of the food was so good. My cousins were sitting in the living room, with my uncle, watching football. I went out in the living room with them, and played on my phone, till the food was done.
There was once a time where Joseph Charles Hanisch had kittens. These weren’t just normal kittens either they were the type where you say, “Awwww,” at first glance. The type of kittens they are so fluffy that they trip over their own feet. Joe lived on a small farm just outside of Hartford with plenty of animals around. He would always joke around when I would pull into his driveway and say, “Please run over Jimbo! Please I beg you Brendan! I hate that cat so much.” When he would say that I would fake it and drive towards the cat, pulling away at the last moment. Jimbo was a tom-cat that wasn’t very friendly to their actual kittens. Each day at school Joe would come up to me saying how he tried to kill that stupid cat. Always with no success. Then there was another older cat. This one was named Prince. He was the friendliest cat in the world, always cuddling up to everybody. Prince would join Joe and I when we were playing American Ninja Warrior on the hay-bales. Throughout the year the kittens were given away. Jimbo had vanished from the area. All that was left was the
Excited for her arrival, he set up her feeding, sleeping and litter box area, all before he had picked her up from the shelter. Sitting down with the carrier on his bed, he opened the door. The fur ball stayed inside and wouldn't come out. Loki waited patiently. Well, patiently for Loki. After a few minutes, he reached in and pulled her out. Once free of her cage, she immediately ran up his arm, onto his shoulder and underneath the back of his long, black, hair...and stayed there. Trying to reach for her, the kitten's claws gripped his shirt and would not let go. Sighing, he reached for a book and leaned back against the headboard. After a while, he felt her begin to purr. He smiled.
When her brother takes her to the vet clinic, she thinks that they are going to give it some medicine and clean him up, but when her brother starts telling her about how the kitten is half dead and they don’t
When my mom came in, she went up to me and said, “Come here and wait, I have to get something. I forgot it.” I replied with a simple “Okay”, not thinking much about it. Then, my mom walks in with something. Suddenly, I heard a very vocal “meow!” I got super excited. It was a cat! A Bengal cat! I had always wanted one because of how pretty and beautiful they were.
“Oh you can’t help that, “Said the Cat: “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
On Christmas morning I woke up at 6:30. I was so tired but still enthusiastic. I was trying so hard to get my parents to come down stairs so I could open up my presents. When they finally
Some nights I will get home from school and have a homework assignment that is incredibly difficult. Usually in math, I will struggle with a large question that involves oodles of work and thinking. I always want to quit and jot down a random answer because I tell myself it’s just one question and it can’t affect my grade too severely if I miss it, but I keep working at it and try to find different ways to figure it out. Whenever I finish a problem that I know I got wrong, I go back through the problem and correct my mistakes. I will start at the top row of the problem and look at them one by one until I get to the end. If my answer is still wrong and I didn’t discover a mistake, I will go back to the top of the problem