If you want a good read, you should check out my fav. story list, or go to search and type in Chels Chels, its her pen name, she is a good writer.

Cold as winter, strong as stone;
She faced the darkness all alone.
A silver goddess; a reflection.
A mirage; a recollection.
No return; no turning back.
The past is gone, the future black.
Serpents gather in their nests,
And she stands above the rest.
Shadows hunt. She hunts the shadow.
The moon is risen, she stands below.
She views her world through eyes of others,
Black and White; there are no colors,
As she looks down upon a shattered youth
A shattered mirror shows a shattered truth.
-Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

About Me:

This is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about Alaska

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time,

you live in Alaska

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you

assistance and they don't work there,

you live in Alaska

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation

with someone who dialed a wrong number,

you live in Alaska

If you measure distance in hours,

you live in Alaska

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow

during a raging blizzard without flinching,

you live in Alaska

If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife

knows how to use them,

you live in Alaska

If you design your kid's Halloween costume

to fit over a snowsuit,

you live in Alaska

If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph --

you're going 80 and everybody is passing you,

you live in Alaska

If driving is better in the winter because the

potholes are filled with snow,

you live in Alaska

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter,

still winter and road construction,

you live in Alaska

If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car,

you live in Alaska

If you find 10 degrees 'a little chilly',

you live in Alaska

Everything on this account written by Grape belongs to me. Thank you.

I may have started writing stories again.

A quote from 'Never Been Kissed'
" Someone once told me that to write well you must write what you know, this is what I know...

Cute Quotes:

"You don't die of a broken heart... you only wish you did."

"Men are like lava lamps; not to bright but fun to looks at."

"Guys are like buses...another one will be along in five minutes."

"Love is blind..it's marriage that's the eye opener."

"Someone once told me that love is like a leap; unfortunatly
I've never been inspired to jump"

"Worrying is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination." ~Dan Zadra

"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow."

"I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, come home and expect to be fed and stroked, then want to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat."

"Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them."

"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience."

"Education is t he ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." ~Robert Frost

" I don't have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem."

" People who have no weakness are terrible; there's no way to take advantage of them." ~Anatole France

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~Eleanore Roosevelt

" I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. "

"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."

"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven - Sooooo, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven."

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is nomore the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." ~Georger Bernard Shaw

"I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on."

"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies." ~P.G. Wodehouse

"I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I only lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three." ~Elayne Boosler

"Falling in love is like getting sick on a ride at the fair; you have a blast until it stops, then you feel like a fool wants to talk to you!"

"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."

"I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave."

"Some have been thought brave because they wereafraid to run away." ~Thomas Fuller

"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."

"All the world's a cage."

"There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. This is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can rud b ut you can't hid. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzche said, being hman is a comlicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes. ~Stuart Stevens

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles." (Anyone from there I apologize, no insult intended)

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."

"'So you think I'm the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'
'Well, that would be a start.'"

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves." ~August Strindberg

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ~Albert Einstien

"Speak when you are angry-- and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." ~Laurence J. Peter

"Usually when people are sad,They don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change." ~ Malcolm X

"I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel taht sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I habe to take that bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness." ~Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003

"It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed itwould be." ~Randy K. Milholland

"Don't part with your illusions.When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." ~Mark Twain

"The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it." ~Joan Rivers.

"Always do what you are afraid to do." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If chained is where you have been, your arms will always bear the marks of the shackles. What you have to lose is your own story, your own slant. You’ll look at the scars on your arms and see mere ugliness or you’ll take great care to look away from them and see nothing. Either way, you have no words for the story of where you came from…we are our injuries as much as we are our successes" Kingsolver, Barbara