Example Essay Intro

  Everyone has an idea of their "Dream House" while growing up, either the small, quaint, charmer on a corner lot with a white picket fence or maybe a huge old rambling farmhouse set out in the country with plenty of room for critters and gardens.  My dream house has always been a log cabin near the water. Something about the natural wood and stone that surrounds most log cabins has always made me feel an inner peace, and I've always been drawn to the water. Even as a young adult, when there was some major crisis going on in my life, I would drive to the lake and sit for hours to think about my problems. Four years ago, my husband made my "Dream House" a reality. He purchased us a three bedroom log cabin with a pond that I can gaze at any time my little heart desires. I love this house! It covers every aspect of what my imagination could ever have come up with, driving by other years ago, and then some.