Tehyi Hsie “Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.”
Colum Sorensen AKA Mr. Grotz “You Lesbians are always looking for an opening. ”
You hated being “It”. In fact, nobody liked being “It” when playing Hide & Seek. “It” was the banished position, the spot for losers, the hardest role in the game. Was it possible, after all, to find all the other kids and tag them before they had a chance to get Home? Not really, and [...]
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The face in the mirror is yours. Yes, you recognize that chin, the eyes that droop when fatigued, the mouth that’s etched parentheses around itself, as if to enclose something you said. That’s your hair. Those are your ears. That’s your nose. It’s you there in the mirror – the outside you – but inside, [...]
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High school, it seems, was built for drama. Maybe it’s because of hormones or because everybody’s searching for who they are or the person they’ll become, but one thing’s certain: Mean Girls, jocks and cheerleaders, nerdy kids, geeks, and bullies generally cannot co-exist in peace. And therein lies a problem, particularly if you’re on the [...]
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Some people, well, you’d do anything for them. The sweet older lady next door calls for a favor and you go running. Your nephew bats those baby blues and you’d buy out the toy store for him. If she asked, you’d dig ditches for a beloved former boss, and all your mom has to do [...]
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You’ve got half a year, more or less. It’s going to take that long to recover from the last round of family holidays and to get used to the next Forced March of Togetherness. You’ll need time to forget about the angst that comes from spending more than 20 minutes in the presence of loonies, [...]
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Your accountant is so proud of you. Like the good saver you are, you’ve tried to invest a little money here or there. A few acres of land, maybe, or a piece of equipment that will make money for you somehow. A good education for you or the kids. Perhaps you’ve even stuck a buck [...]
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There’s a fine line between “want” and “need”. You didn’t need another cookie, chocolate-dipped goodie, or brownie hiding beneath powdered sugar. You didn’t need that creamy glass with holiday garnish. And definitely, you didn’t need the calories. But oh, you wanted them. So imagine denying yourself those and almost all other foods. Imagine living on [...]
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The chair is your New Favorite Place. It used to be the sofa, before you moved stuff around. Now everything’s different and the lighting is better over where the chair sits. You moved a table here, a bookcase there, angled the rug, and the room looks amazing. Funny how a little furniture-moving can be such [...]
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You must have driven your mother crazy. She went to the kitchen, you went with her. She tried to do laundry, you had to “help”; same with pretty much any household chore. She couldn’t even go to the bathroom without you banging on the door. As a kid, you loved your mom to pieces and [...]
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White suits with shiny polyester shirts. Remember those? Remember handkerchief-hemmed, floaty dresses and platform shoes on a blinking dance floor? The thumpa-thumpa-thumpa of the beat and the hazy feeling of strobe light on mirror ball? If you’re Of A Certain Age, those are either good memories or disco sucked. Either way, in the new book [...]
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