Hair pulling, teasing, pinching, name-calling, tattling, insulting, fighting. Oh boy, did we have a history. Last week I went on a date with my elementary school nemesis. You could say it was a date 2 months in the making. You could say it was a date 20 years in the making. You could say it [...]
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A Date with My Elementary School Nemesis: Background
Posted in boys, childhood, tagged boys, dates, memories, teenagers on January 24, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Hats Off to Hats
Posted in childhood, giveaways on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One day when I was ten years old, my mother bought me a hat. It was a black, wool, tag-less, newspaper-boy hat, a beret with a bit of a brim really. It looked not unlike the hats the man wears in the picture book classic “Caps For Sale”. It was simple, timeless. It wasn’t pink, [...]
When I Was A Wallflower
Posted in childhood, Uncategorized, tagged admissions, college, concerts, high school, mosh pits, shows, teenaged, teenagers on May 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »
December 12, 2003 I received an abysmally thin envelope embossed OBERLIN COLLEGE in the left hand corner. My heart pounded in my ears as I ripped it open: Just cause it’s thin doesn’t necessarily mean… I extracted the single sheet of paper where the phrases Unfortunately and We regret and Wish you all the best accosted me. [...]
The Best Valentine’s Day of the Millennium
Posted in childhood, tagged jealousy, middle school, single, Valentine's Day on February 16, 2011 | 24 Comments »
My locker was the place to be in middle school. Giggling groups of girls gathered there (I coudn’t resist the alliteration), while boys played it cool, casually leaning against the wall, hiding surging hormones and the accompanying acne behind baggy pants and Nick Carter bangs. None of it had anything to do with me. The [...]
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