Ronda Everson

“The Noisy Toilet” by Ronda Everson

I was laying on my bed taking a nap. All of a sudden, I heard it again! The toilet was running and running and running! It just kept using all the water and running up the water bill! Every time I heard it, I had to go in there and jiggle the handle and make it stop. However, I was really tired, and I needed a nap, and just as I laid down, the toilet went after it again, "trickle, trickle, trickle!" I was disgusted and tired! I didn't want to get up! That toilet was driving me crazy! I had to do something about it permanently!I got out ...

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“The Monster in the Basement” by Ronda Everson

I was cooking dinner in my kitchen in Sura Mica, Romania, a small village outside of Sibiu, Romania's fifth largest city, right in the middle of the country. My kitchen was upstairs. We had remodeled our house because a German Romanian had originally built it. He made it so that if you came in the front door, you cold only go upstairs, and if you wanted to go downstairs, you had to go outside and use an outside door. I had the bright idea of changing the stairs so that it was like a ranch style house at the front door, so you could go eit...

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“Doing Laundry Around the World and Back” by Ronda Everson

Submitted to Contest #31

Doing laundry is something we all have to do, but many of us don't realize there are different ways of doing it all over the globe. When I was a little girl living in Morocco when my dad worked at the embassy, my mother had one of those old washing machines with a roller. I loved helping her do the laundry and putting the clothes through the roller. However, the Araba women didn't have those washing machines. They were doing something different. They were stomping on their clothes. In our village, there was a stream that ran through the ...

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“The President Called” by Ronda Everson

Submitted to Contest #30

We were foreigners in S. Korea. I was teaching at a small university. I had planned for my daughter to attend the university, but when it came time for her to apply the response way, "Sorry, we don't accept anyone who has been homeschooled." I had homeschooled her the first year I went to Korea because she couldn't speak Korean, and the university didn't pay me enough to send her to an international school. There was an online high school from America, but they said she wasn't old enough and had to wait until next year. I got books made ...

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“The Tunnel to Heaven Through the Fallout” by Ronda Everson

Submitted to Contest #29

I had grown up away from my mother's family, but before I left home, we moved to Oklahoma, where both of my parents were originally from. I really didn't know my extended family. However, I was slowly getting to know them. We didn't drink at our house except my dad having an occasional beer. We didn't smoke either except for my dad's pipe. We all went to church every Sunday except my dad. However, it was my mother's family I was getting to know. My mother was very strict. We were in her little car every tim...

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“The Screaming Priest” by Ronda Everson

Submitted to Contest #28

The Screaming Priest, by Ronda EversonWhen I lived in Romania, I was invited to a wedding occassionally, and they could get quite interesting. At the Orthodox church in Romania, the buidlings are quite ornate, and the weddings can be too. I went to a smaller Orthodox wedding at a smaller Orthodox church building, but it was still beautiful with lots of pictures on the wall, beautiful carpets on the floor, and flowers, an open Bible, and objects of gold at the altar. Usually, people don't sit at an Orthodox wedding. However, th...

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