oscarelizondo


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oscarelizondo
Age: 59
City: Harlingen
Country: United States
Joined: Feb 2008

I am a retired school teacher. I fought in the Viet-nam conflict and received a purple heart. I am married and have two children. My wife is handicap and I help her alot. I like to write children’s stories and I used to do it while teaching. As my students would listen I decided to use them as a teaching guide. My students needed a lot of help and I incorporated their names in my stories while using vocabulary works and composition writing to encourage them. They loved the stories and I made thousands of copies because they wanted to read them to their little brothers and sisters, and later on in life they tell me they are reading them to their children. Oh, even their parents would tell me that they too had read them. Well, I promised them that some day I would publish them because the really wanted a hard copy. Now, into the future, I had to retire due to my wife’s illness and handicap. I love writing even if nobody reads them anymore.
This is an up date. My wife died about a month ago and I hold her memory dearly so I am not changing what I had written prior to this. Thank you!

Journal Entries

You Didn't Have To Be So Nice

Posted 2 days ago, 6 comments so far.

Sleep Walking, Perhaps, Or Maybe Not

Posted 12 days ago, 4 comments so far.

Thou Shall Not Be Lost

Posted 14 days ago.

I Hope It's Not Too Late

Posted about 1 month ago, 4 comments so far.

How Does It Feel?

Posted about 1 month ago, 4 comments so far.

Lessons From The Bees

Posted about 1 month ago, 2 comments so far.

I Dreamed Myself To Peace

Posted about 1 month ago, 4 comments so far.

Survival Of Two Good Friends

Posted 2 months ago, 2 comments so far.

When Is The War Over

Posted 2 months ago, 2 comments so far.

Itching to Write

Posted 3 months ago, 2 comments so far.

Writing

My Guitar Fingers

My Guitar Fingers My fingers stroked the strings gently on the guitar, / but there was no sound of the creative music to hear, / The emotions …

Part IV He Failed To Show Up

Part IV He Failed To Show Up Two weeks passed after Maria had her father mail her responsive letter to Oscar. The young soldier was stationed with a unit in the Republic of Vietnam during his …

Part III He Failed To Show Up

Part III He Failed To Show Up It took Maria more time than she had anticipated with her decision to answer the soldier in uniform that once stood at the corner store next to the lamp post wait…

Part II He Failed To Show Up

Part II He Failed To Show Up Maria was the first one to speak as the tears from her father’s eyes came with unforgiving thoughts. “How …

Silent Moments

Silent Moments Silent moments spent alone listening to my thoughts, / With a tunnel vision to go along just incase I loose focus. / Into a trans …

He Failed To Show Up

He Failed To Show Up / / Maria stood by her bedroom window every night before she knelt down to pray and looked down at the empty street below. About a half block away at the corner of the st…

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