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...
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....
The little kid, not one of my students, tries to corroborate the bullies’ story, but he is too shaken up to effectively nod. He does the body language equivalent of stammering for part of a second, and quietly tears well up in his...
I’ve always been a big fan of the sauna. A good sauna can relax you, clear your head, and make your skin look great. And all of this for a mere fifteen minutes of sweating. Not a bad deal, when you think of it. I would love...
My senior year of high school, I was hopelessly in love. He was good looking. He was charismatic. He was funny. He had some downsides though, among them the fact that he was gay and likely had some version of borderline personality disorder, but...
