Cameron's Non-Fiction Writing Blog

About a year ago, my family and I adopted a six month old Silver Labrador from a dog breeder just outside of Kimmundy. We decided to name him Bitzer and less than an hour later I had already fallen in love with him. He is my favorite thing in the world and has been since the day we took him in. He is funny, playful, expressive, loving, and wants nothing more than a nice frozen orange yogurt and blueberry treat alongside a thorough scratching on the bum. As shown in the picture below, he doesn’t show any resemblance in color to a Silver Labrador, but he has two nice and soft floppy ears, a funny brown nose, light blue eyes, a number of whiskers scattered around and under his nose and chin, and he is easily the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. One of my favorite things about Bitzer is his ability to unintentionally entertain. If he’s chewing a toy on the couch, he’ll often accidentally drop the toy off the couch if his chewing slows down. This happens very often and the fact that he still ha

I have been afraid of many things over the course of my life, but only a few of these fears have stuck with me over the course of my life. One fear that refuses to go away is my fear of heights. I have had this fear for as long as I remember but thankfully it’s not as severe as it used to be. I remember when I was smaller I had such a hard time dealing with this fear I refused to ride any Ferris wheel no matter how big or small, I would become anxious and scared if I so much as climbed the bottom few steps of a ladder, and I only ever used the swing set for sitting, not swinging as I was worried I’d fall, no matter how unlikely it was. However, as I am growing older and becoming better at stepping outside my comfort zone, I have begun noticing instances where this fear no longer controls me like it used to. Two summers ago, I visited the CN tower, and instead of backing out and making excuses to leave, I walked on the glass floor despite being several thousand feet in the air and ver