
Posted on 03 October 2011. Tags: crew chief, steve armstrong
“I just put my head down and go.’’ It is a defiance of speed and physics, the closest anyone can come to walking on water. In this intensely fast, demanding, and dangerous sport, drivers literally skim across the surfaces of lakes and rivers in ultra-light, aerodynamic boats, going anywhere from 80 to well over 200 [...]
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Posted on 01 October 2011. Tags: dinner table, email, fingers, pops, three times
Are you challenged by modern day teens? OR are you a teen YOURSELF? in either case, you will probably recognize something of your experience in the following story: Sixteen year-old Leah and her mother are sitting at the dinner table. Each is reading her emails on hand-held devices. Every time an email arrives it announces [...]
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Posted on 29 September 2011. Tags: full length mirror, justine, leah, mid sentence, six months, wrinkles
An excerpt from In Leah’s Wake: the Prologue“. . . little heart of mine, believe me, everyone is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything. I don‘t know how to explain it to you, but I feel it is so, painfully even. And how is it we went on living, getting angry and [...]
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Posted on 23 September 2011. Tags: bs, english language, yarmouth high school
As students celebrated their GCSE results across the country, yesterday was a poignant day for the family of Norfolk schoolgirl Leah Wilby when they received results of GCSEs she sat prior to her death from cancer. The brave 15-year-old battled through pain in her back caused by cancer in her spine and liver to achieve [...]
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