Personal Narrative: How Debra Changed My Life

Have you ever loved one thing so much that you just can’t stop thinking about it? Well, running was that “thing” for 16-year-old track star Jessica Carlisle. She lived, breathed, and ate running every single day up until the accident. When her track team’s bus is coming home from their meet, they collide with another vehicle that is going the opposite way. One of their teammates’ dies and Jessica ends up losing her leg.

She won her first medal for track and field when she was eight years old. SHe loved everything about the sport. “ I loved that I didn’t have to think, there was just the physical,” Janet Davis, 50, said. “And it helped I was good at it too.” Davis said.Davis’s love for track didn't falter as she grew older. Davis said,” Growing up in Indianola, Mississippi, meant that I had a lot of free time on my hands. So with the free time that I had, I raced and practiced. I helped me stay focused on my goal.” She raced with her sixteen brothers and sisters and as she grew even older she wanted to run even more. Davis joined her local track team and started to travel at age ten.By the age of 12, in 1977, she won her first gold medal, in Tokyo, Japan.

Already some of you might have heard that I will be stepping down early next year because I have accepted a similar position with another City. I tendered in my resignation to the City Council last week and I will say that that was

On Saturday Jan 2, 2016 My Wife, and I had a free day with the kids and thought it'd be a good idea to visit your dealership as we are in the Market for a new vehicle. The salesperson who greeted me less than 30 seconds and 6 inches from my car door was Ryan Smith. I explained to him immediately which vehicle I was searching for and showed him the listing on your website. I made certain at this time to tell him we would not be buying today, I wanted numbers to take back to my credit union. He responded by arguing with me and saying to give his finance guys a chance. After a moment of defending my position he left to go find the car we came to look at.

My decision to resign was finalized after long thought and careful consideration of all factors that came into play. I will regret leaving my very wonderful

All I remember is running through the halls trying to find the closest closet or classroom with Debra when suddenly I tripped over her foot and everything goes black.

At 8am the doctor came by to do another check and I was now at 5cm. I wanted to have a natural birth and to experience labor as it is. Before this visit I asked for nitrus oxide to get me through labor. The nurse came in a few minutes later and got me set up with the nitrus and it was such a relief! As long as I kept the mask intact and took long deep breaths the contractions felt mild and were bearable. My nurses name was Diane and she was fantastic. Diane wasn't like the other nurses whom I encountered. She was kind and personable and I can honestly say she made everything a little easier.

As she walked away with the check and cash the phone buzzed, reading the message he smiled. Looking at her she didn't come across as someone sick, though you could never tell just by looking if someone was terminally ill. Often it was something inside, that ate away, only apparent at the end. A finger on his lips as he watched her open up the antique cash register and count out his change, which he did not want. For a moment he wondered, could he do it? Would it be worth it? She wasn't gorgeous, women like that only plan their own demise in the movies. No one in real life does it, and a gorgeous woman that a man instantly falls in love with, no one would do it. Or a madman.

Debby is the Chief Financial Officer of the organization I work for. My boss had also flown in to the office to support Debby at an award event for the Best CFO for Orange County, which she was nominated for. During lunch we talked briefly about Debby and the type of leader she is. Based on his feedback and my first interactions with her during this visit, I was very impressed. I asked my boss during our 1:1 meeting if he thought she would be willing to do an interview with me for class. He said he thought she would be and said he would ask her during his 1:1 session later that week with her (My boss reports to Debby). He came back later that week and let me know that she was very excited that I had asked and said she was waiting for me to schedule something on her calendar.

I believe, without my mother's independence and the way she raised me, I would not be applying to Queens today. I have had my share of ups although I've also had plenty of downs. I have two older sisters and a younger brother. My oldest sister chose a different path when she had the opportunity to choose a more successful path. She moved out at the age of 16 to flew across the country to live off of my grandpa's income. She dropped out of college, barely a semester in, with student loan debt. She could have been a multi-sport collegiate athlete on scholarship. I look at her and see what could happen if I don't make the right choices and take advantage of my opportunities. My second oldest sister made most of the right choices, and I look at her and see how successful I could become.

According to, The University of La Verne fifty percent of all college students go in to careers that does not fit their degree chose. Though the numbers may have been different from when my mother went to college, but people have been changing their minds about their future since the beginning.

Typically, early morning phone calls on your birthday bring well wishes and kind words from friends and family, but that has not always been the case for my wife. Just before seven o’clock A.M. on her twenty-fourth birthday our telephone rang. It was not an old friend singing happy birthday, or our friends that we had plans with later that evening. The voice on the other end of the line was her father delivering news that would change Lisa’s life forever. Her mother was being rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. She had collapsed in the kitchen while cooking their breakfast. Judy remained unresponsive for one week and the decision was made to remove life support. She passed within hours of this decision, but the impact those few days had

I never thought my life would profoundly change when I received the news that I would soon have a new baby cousin. Medically fragile, and autistic children have always existed, but never in my life. I did not know that one small child could change my views on life and warm my heart with unconditional love.

Hi, my name is Emily, I am 600,001 years old and a ghost. I am from Enrichment Virginia. One day I was going to take a black belt test, but I ate too many Cheerios before the test! After that I tried again but I had to take the test on my own because my foolish boyfriend dumped me. After I got my black belt I saved the world. Later I regret that I died in a pit of lava.

Just recently, my mom had developed an interest in Colorado because she was sick of being in Streator and wanted to move far enough away from here that she could do things on her own. My mom found a place to go and she was excited about leaving. My mom is a grown woman and can make her own decisions but she never asked the rest of the family how they felt about the move. When my uncle Jason and the rest of us found out that she was moving, we had all got emotional and upset, no one wanted her to go. Due to mine and my mom’s relationship, we weren’t very close so the greatest toll on me was losing my little sister Jenessa. I knew none of us could change my mom’s mind no matter the amount of persuasion we presented, she had her decision made