If I were to go on a road trip to 5 different places, first I would start by driving from Childress to Cleveland, Ohio to the Rock n' Roll hall of fame. Then I would drive to Mount Rushmore in Keystone, South Dakota. Next I would travel to Yellowstone National Park. For the fourth place, I would drive to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. Last, I would drive to Albuquerque, New Mexico to visit family and then back to Childress. If I were to drive all this in a straight shot, It would be 5,576.61 miles driven.

Story Spinner: Option 2

The long scar just below his left eye was enough to tell that this guy was trouble. But as he walked past me at the airport, in his ragged black clothes, I could tell by the look in his eye he did not like me at all. The way he squinted at me was enough to tell that he was looking for a fight.
With a stroke of immaturity, he came up to me and pushed me in the chest waiting for me to respond back. His breath smelled like onions as he roared in my face "do somethin', ill knock you out!" By this time, people began to crowd around and watch.
I was ready to crack, I was tired of him wailing in my face but for some reason I held my composure. I had a plane to catch and I had no time to get arrested. Still carrying my credentials in my hand to pass through the security checkpoint, I walked off. Behind me, he shouted something vulgar into the air and then I remembered, that was my ex-girlfriend's brother!

Swine Flu

I honestly think if the Swine Flu gets even close to Childress, I'm gonna get the (bleep) out of here! I don't really feel like getting the Flu again much less dying from it in 3 days.

The life of a bird
by Chance V.

Senior Poem

It's the end of the year and graduation is here!
it's almost time to go but I feel like I owe...
this school some more time with this little rhyme
my mind is made up and I've given up
it's time to move on and continue on
to live my own life away from my hearth
I'm going away to a place far off
to continue my school to an academy
there I will learn things
things not many people get to hear
I'm almost a college student now
and there's nothing that I will fear.

Salem Witch Trials

If I was accused of being a witch during the Salem trials, I'd probably just want to get revenge on the person who accused me since there is no reason to even try to plea my innocence. All the others who said they were innocent got hung and thrown off cliffs n' such, so I think I'll just go throw some cyanide in those little girl's drinks or something and get myself hung because that's the only way I'm gonna leave the world happily knowing those little demons are gone from my home town. Dang witches...

10 reasons i like spring semester

1. it gets warmer than freezing but i hate it when it gets too hot outside
2. time changes back to longer days with more light
3. i can cook outside
4. my house isn't freezing in the morning
5. my truck doesn't have to warm up as long
6. i can sleep with a fan
7. i can toss the football outside without my hands and face being numb
8. its starting to look like it wants to rain outside finally. i love stormy weather
9. i can drive home from work in the day light
10. summer and graduation are closer than before

The Spoilers

Album: Real Chance of Love
Artist: The Spoilers
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2009

107 yr. old Lady seeks spouse

BEIJING (Reuters) – A 107-year-old Chinese woman who was afraid to marry when she was young has decided to look for her first husband and hopes to find a fellow centenarian so they will have something to talk about, a Chinese paper reported.

Wang Guiying is worried she is becoming a burden to her aging nieces and nephews since breaking her leg when she was 102 and had to stop doing chores like washing her clothes.

"I'm already 107 and I still haven't got married," the Chongqing Commercial Times quoted her saying. "What will happen if I don't hurry up and find a husband?"

Born in southern Guizhou province the child of a salt merchant, Wang grew up watching her uncles and other men scold and beat their wives and often found her aunt crying in the woodshed after an attack, the paper said.

"All the married people around there lived like that. Getting married was too frightening," she said of an era when Chinese women had few rights and low social standing.

Many also had their feet bound in an excruciating process aimed at making them look more dainty and marriageable.

After Wang's father, mother and older sister died, she still shied away from marriage. Instead she moved to the countryside and survived as a farmer until she was 74 years old and no longer strong enough to work in the fields, the report said.

Her nephew in the booming city of Chongqing then took Wang in, but she is worried he and her other nephews and nieces are too old to take care of her now even the youngest is 60.

"My nephews and nieces are getting older and their children are already tied up with their own families and I am becoming more and more of a burden," she said.

Local officials have said they are happy to help Wang search for a 100-year old groom, and suggested her family get in touch with old people's homes to find candidates, the paper said.

(Reporting by Emma Graham-Harrison; Editing by Nick Macfie and

Through the eyes of a dog

It was morning time and I had just been woken up by the constant shuffle of my owner in his usual morning routine. This routine included slamming the snooze button on the clock continuously, then finally dragging out of bed in a sudden rush to get to work. You see my master, Ted, was a procrastinator to the worst degree. In fact, if I had my say so around here, he would get up 2 hours early for work. But nobody listens to my opinion...just like ol' Hank the cowdog in his series. He always seems to know best but his masters don't listen to him one bit. They'd much rather pester him or call him "pooch." Boy do I hate that word, "pooch." I tell you what, If my master ever called me that I'd gnarl his couch to shreads, but luckily the thought of saying that has never dawned upon him. Now where was I...oh yes! The master had woken up and he was getting ready for work in a hurried manner when we both heard a smash in the back yard. He rushed outside with me behind him only to find that the neighbor had cut down a tree in the back yard. "Hey!", said Ted, "I told you not to cut down that tree till' I got back from work so I could help! Don't make me sick Ruffus on you!" After a short laugh from the neighbor, we both retreated back inside. By this time Ted had noticed the time and was running to the garage with his lunch in hand. "Bye Ruffus! Don't tear anything up while I'm gone!" Believe me, I thought, if he had called me pooch on the way out, I would have...