And when you get a taste

You’ll first lose it

Then regroup.

Take a smidgen of vanity

A bucket of tears

Cut up some anger,

And shred up the years

Add in the moments of sweetness in life

With  a pinch of spicy  fantasies

Then  pour on the whine.

Stir in the wisdom, those nice onion pearls…

Now pass over a bowl , and lets give it a whirl!

By: Laura Tidwell

My writing, my words, they are lost somewhere,

In a sea full of papers, for degrees, if you care.

Like clouds that are fluffy, to see, but not touch.

They’ve floated away, and I miss them so much.

Like salt in my skin, where a wound has been made.

I quote other people to get passing grades.

Like  gulls who shriek, professors stalk their prey

While my brain is in Hawaii, on a bright and sunny day.

What a joy it was,
When Mema brought you home.
Adoration was immense,
And in our hearts ’twas known.

You’d dance for your vitamin,
Or play “lame duck” for show.
Dragging your little hind legs.
Like paralysis
To and fro’.

You were just a pup,
We never left you alone.
I was just a toddler,
Together, we learned as we’d grow.

You were with Mema,
In the thick
Like when I,
Was very sick.

Too, too ill
To go out and play,
Then Grandaddy’s heart stopped,
And he passed away.

You were cute
With your little scarf.
They practically
had to tear you,
And Granddaddy apart.

You jumped into the casket,
To kiss him one last goodbye.
Before they dropped that basket
And everyone began to cry.

Then you moved to Georgia,
And told Florida adieu,
I could see you everyday.
A little Selfish, that’s true!

Then one night,
Again, we all cried,
Announcing that
“In Mema’s arms
Little Baby died.”

The storm was rough,
As power went out,
Light bulbs burned
In more then just the house.

We realized,
As Mema started to Shutter
The sad ,sad words
That were about,
To be uttered.

“Baby is gone!”
She didn’t survive the storm.
Her heart has stopped,
Her body is not warm.

You were the pet,
I knew the best
And so I loved you,
A little more then the rest.

We saw
your reflection.
Mema And I,
In the shape of a cloud
Up in the sky.

We know you’re in heaven
Waiting to greet us,
With the same tender spirit
And your heart that we loved.

Adieu precious Baby
Until we meet again!
To everyone in the family
You were the most loyal friend.
You are loved!

By: Laura Tidwell

Can you help me reach them?
I’m just a little small.
I don’t know if there is a chance
I’ll ever get that tall.

I need to draw a picture,
To show you how I feel.
I’m just a little scared right now,
And not sure how to deal.

I need the brown for my hair,
And yellow for the sun.
I like that I have dark hair
And I’ll be sad when its gone.

I know that it will grow back,
But what girls shave their head?
I know that I should not care,
Since I could end up dead.

I want to make my cheeks pink
And wear a red dress!
Red’s my favorite color!
It’s better then all the rest!

Are my sisters coming?
I want to draw them too.
I love coloring pictures,
I hope there’s more to do.

Did I really drown?
I can’t remember much.
I do know that an angel
Left me with its touch.

Why did I see it?
What does it mean?
Am I making pretend?
It didn’t feel like a dream.

I am scared to go to sleep now,
I don’t want to die,
When I wake up from my long nap
I hope there’s a butterfly.

Seven hours later,
As my vision, becomes clear
I wake with hesitation,
And a bandage near my ear.

Look,a butterfly!
On the window ledge!
Today, I lived through brain surgery
Mommy, I’m not dead!

I want to draw a picture,
Of my family
I want to draw my nurse,
And the doctor who saved me.

Can I see my crayons?
I can not reach from here…
But one day I bet I’ll be tall
Enough to reach up there!

1.I was born a week early, breach, folded up, and twice, because my dad made my mother suck me back in because she was laughing at his stupid remark.

2. I like pigs…a lot, they are adorable…but they do taste good too, I know I am sick!

3.I went to stagedoor manor in New york, and was in Play with Ron Howard’s Daughter, Paige, and bunked with Andy Rooney’s granddaughter, Alexis Rooney Perkins!( I am looking for Alexis by the way!)

4. One of my closest friends is Kendra, I seem to trust her with everything!

5. I have lived in Columbus for over 15 years!

6. I am an aspiring model ( plus sized and petite, the odds are against me, but I’ve got work so far.)

7. I found my faith in a hospital bed, when I woke from a coma

8. Then I had a brain surgery a few weeks later.

9. I work with doctors recruiting cancer patients now to my parents’ cancer clinic.

10. I have six classes until I graduate

11. I am not paralyzed, Brain damaged, mute blind or dead, though everyone thought any of that might happen!

12. I have not scrapbooked in a few months, but I love to scrapbook life adventures, and special moments

13. I have been to 4 continents!

14. I am a former missionary.

15. The farthest I have been from my home is Japan and Hawaii

16. I have severe depression though don’t act like it most of the time.

17.I plan to write an autobiography one day, if I can sit down and do it…I commend people who actually sit down and do it.

18.I forget several times daily that I have a new car, and not my sweet little tracker, though Ralfie is great!

19. I have website that’s not completely polished, but fun to maintain. (duh)

20. I am in Xi theta

21. I hate it when my bangs are in my eyes !

22. I am allergic to shell fish and have acid reflux so I am not suppose to eat most food groups, but I do anyway.

23. I recently found my childhood best friend on facebook, who knew me when I had my brain tumor still.

24. I twitter

25. I have a reputation for getting good gifts, when I don’t do that, I am really hard on myself.

Laura

Hello again everyone. This is a picture of charlie and I. We were headed to Boomtown on Christmas day ! BoomTown is a casino in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. I don’t know if you can look at my lip and tell, but I had just gotten a gigantic fever blister! I hate getting those things. Now I have had them since I was a little girl, I inherited them from my mom. It makes it very difficult to aspire to something like modeling when you can have a flare up at anytime,and look like the lovingly assigned nickname I stumbled upon my first year of college, Barnacle lips…which I then translated to Barnacle Bettie…Mine finally went away from that flare up…but I am up at 6 am, and thinking about getting a medicine, that permanently keeps those things in check…On another note, the food was amazing at Boomtown. Charlie friend’s came with us. I don’t have permission to put one of the friends’ photo up, and don’t have a photo of the other one, so I will just keep them anonymous…I will tell you that, this was a fabulous day, depsite my painful and obvious feeling swollen lip.

So everyone, I got my plans for spring break in the works. I am flying in to LaGuardia in NYC, and staying there for two days, then I am taking the train to Philadelphia and staying there for 3 days. I am very excited. This will be a big trip for me. Two big cities in one spring break…It will be great, I do believe.I will be visiting my friend in NYC, and my brother and his girlfriend in Philly. I might be going to A Britney Spears concert in Philly, and I hear it is a great show. Even if you think she is a mediocre singer, supposedly the spectacle is great. I will keep you posted though, as to hwo everything unfolds…what I know now, is Have aticket for NYC and a ticket out fo Philly.YAY!

Laura