Killing Time

When I was about nine or ten years old, I used to dream about driving a car.
I didn't have very many friends, I was pretty shy,but there was this one friend, and he had hookups around the town so we use to make go-carts out of Big Wheels. They were not Motorized so I became the pusher.
They said I was the fastest so we would have races, and we would always win.

I remember even making a make believe car in the backyard of my house. I sat on the ground leaning up against a pole, and made my own car sounds. My sisters would just laugh at me, but they told me later on in life that I sounded just like a race car, and they were impressed at the sounds I made. I would be out there for hours sometimes. But I thought it was the greatest time I ever had.

Dinner table

I remember as a kid my dad and I would play cards at night at the table, and he would always win the game,the game we would play was solitaire.

I don't know how he did it but it was pretty crafty. I have to say it was awesome that we would play in general, Because my dad was not into people yes even his kids if know what I mean.

He had a hard child life so he became mean and hard to deal with, so for him to take the time to play cards, it was not common to see him in this mood, but we had fun playing.

One of the things that he somehow was able to do in a card game was end up with all the aces, he did it every time, I think it was a skill that he had. it would drive me crazy so I would just deal with it.

My dad has pass since but that will be in my memory for the rest of my life.

Singing

Singing is a big part of my life. I'm in a band at our church, and some of the members are teenagers except for me and one of my daughters.

We travel to other churches and perform live. It's exciting because these kids are awsome to work with, they bring out the youth in me.

Basicly what we sing is rock-roll. We change the words of worldly songs to christian, I have to say it's alot of work but we have a blast doing it.

Prayer

Whether or not you believe in prayer or God, people tend to lean on prayer,
in time of crisis or need.

I think we live in our own little world, sometimes we don't think that people can go through the same things we do, but one thing is for sure we all bleed red and we all have emotion. Somewhere deep inside I think we do care about other peoples needs and concerns.

I have to say that prayer is an important part of the human race in order to survive life. We can not suppress it anymore.

Falling

I remember, about eight years ago, I purchased a two-cycle motor scooter. It had small tires and was low to the ground. If you were to go fast on the scooter, it would be very scary because it was only made to go a certain speed. Well, I improved the engine a little to make it go faster.

For the next few days, I rode all over the neighborhood. It was quite loud because I had put a bigger muffler and carborator on it. One evening, I asked my ten year old daughter to go for a ride with me. We had ridden it before together, so she was comfortable with it. However, this night was different.

We rode at night because of less traffic, so she felt safe. We went to ride around at the school parking lot. We were on the sidewalk. I don't know what I was thinking. Suddenly, we were on the edge of the curb, and I thought I could jump off the curb with my daughter on the front of the scooter. Just then, we went forward, going head-first into the ground. To keep my daughter's face from being "roadkill", I put my hand in front of her face, and her face hit my hand and broke my wrist. She was pretty shaken up. We then walked home, talking about our experience.

Since then, she has never ridden with me again.