On Saturday nights, our family was happy. During the week, Dad wasn’t ever around, my brother and I fought, and…
Tag: childhood
Alternate title: Why Jude the Obscure Infuriates Me 1982. Eighth grade. Fifth period. Speech class…Mark. I only had three crushes in eighth…
To be honest, I didn’t remember my first kiss. Luckily, I kept diaries growing up (you remember, hard cover books…
Ah, young love. Come on, you remember … those single and early double digit years, before we got older and…
Fifth grade. Danny. He had freckles and smelled like some exotic spice: cardamom or coriander. He was a foster kid…
Spiders send me into paroxysms of joy. Or my first car, a 1980 Fiat Pininfarina Spider 2000 did anyway. I…
