Bootstrap, v. : To make use of existing resources or capabilities to raise (oneself) to a new situation or state; to modify or improve by making use of what is already present.
Try this experiment. Gather a group of the cutest, sweetest, silliest, most rambunctious toddlers and little kids you know, even add a couple of bad-asses, into a room, maybe a living room. Make them feel safe. Give them rules but let them play....
The summer after my sophomore year of high school, I turned 16. It was my golden birthday, since I was born on June 16th. I had been told this was supposed to be a very special day, a birthday to remember forever. And for most of the day, it was...
I met Mark at a nightclub. No, wait. That's not true. My best friend, Dahlia, met Mark on the internet. This was, like, 1990-something. 6? 7? I was definitely old enough to drink. And we met him...
Greetings my name is Sigmund, I am from Los Angeles and I am a coincidentalist, (it has nothing to do with dentistry though). I study coincidence and consider it as my hobby. It started when I was 17 years old, (1972...
I'm a Moth Storyteller and writer (NY Press, Saturday Night Live) -- Here's a recent story, the one about me lying about being 14 and working at the local...
Roland Teed was some kind of mixed breed, a veritable freak in our high school of whitebread plainness. Two years my senior, half Chinese, but broad shouldered with bowed legs and about my height, Roland was already an adult....