Mark Graham
Bio
I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
Stories (709/0)
December
December the last month of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The month that children look forward to all year long and that visit from St. Nicholas. There is also Chanukah that sometimes falls around Christmas for those of the Jewish faith. The month when keeping secrets is okay for a while. It is also the time of year for decorating the inside and outside of homes and businesses to show Christmas spirit, even though it seems that this starts at times in September. There are colored lights and bells and singing of carols too. To me it was a time of snowball fights, ice skating, building snowmen, and falling backwards in the snow and making snow angels. December a month of fun and memories to cherish.
By Mark Grahamabout 7 hours ago in Critique
November
Moving on to the month of November and the major holiday of Thanksgiving as well as Veteran's Day. The month of just 30 days and hopefully completing harvests and other chores before the snow flies. Watching the birds fly south for warmer weather and hoping for me to see snow or at least heavy frosts to give me the feeling of being cozy while reading a book and enjoying a hot cup of tea or a soothing drink of something else.
By Mark Grahamabout 7 hours ago in Critique
October
The month of October and the day of All Hallow's Eve on its' last day. There are a few Jewish religious days like Yom Kippur and one other one but to me October is one of fall chores from raking leaves and preparing gardens for winter and maybe even mowing grass one or more times before the end of the year. The leaves are changing to vibrant and vivid colors of yellow, gold, red and orange then jumping in them and starting all over again.
By Mark Grahamabout 7 hours ago in Critique
Senior Year
We have reached my Senior year in high school. The year it seems that everyone cannot wait for and when it is over they begin to wonder. This was the year we studied American Government and Economics, and I had courses in Money Management, Office Practice, Typing, Recordkeeping/Office Machines, Business English Communications. and even a Piano class. We were all planning for our Senior prom and getting everyone to sign our Senior albums.
By Mark Grahama day ago in Critique
Shadow Spell
The second installment of Nora Robert's Cousins O'Dwyer trilogy 'Shadow Spell' is all about Conner and his talents and his building relationship with Meara. The cousins seem to go back and forth between times and begin working with the cousins of the past and learning from them in dealing with Cabhan in their time and theirs. There are many issues that they are all dealing with in their lives. Nora Robert's once again has written a show and tell story. I have started reading book three of this series.
By Mark Graham2 days ago in Critique
Cityscape
Here is my pencil sketch of a small city or a town that I did free hand. I learned how to draw this in an Art class I had during my freshman year in high school or it could have been during middle school. Please comment on this and I would really appreciate it.
By Mark Graham2 days ago in Art
Junior Year
(Note: Before I start on 'Junior year' there is one thing in my Sophomore year I forgot that year I had also taken Typing I for at the time it was a graduation requirement and I guess I was still thinking as a business studies student. Also, selling Christmas candy for our Senior prom.)
By Mark Graham2 days ago in Critique
Sophomore year
My sophomore year in high school to me was the year that I decided to try and just be a general studies student and found out it was the most boring year I had. Instead of taking Business math and Business English I had courses in Applied Math and General American Literature. They were interesting courses and covered interesting topics but not really in a lot detail. Well, I did take the first course in French and really like it. It was also the year when students had a course called Oral Communications where we learned how to write and give speeches. My sophomore year was a year of learning more about myself.
By Mark Graham2 days ago in Critique
Winnie the Pooh
This is the first Winnie the Pooh novel that is entitled 'Winnie the Pooh' created by A.A. Milne. This first book is all about Pooh's adventures in the Hundred Acre Woods living under a sign saying 'Sanders'. Pooh meets a Woozle, a Heffalump, goes to a birthday party and a few other activities as well. After I have read this book several times and still quite enjoyed the read, but since I was a mental health nurse it also showed me a different way of looking at eating disorders, anxiety, depression, hyperactivity, attachment disorders, and even grandiose ideations. Mainly though it is a book showing how imagination is the way to go as a child such as Christopher Robin shows how to grow up to be a good person in many ways.
By Mark Graham3 days ago in Critique