I was seventeen years old and a senior in high school. I’ve always been a bit of an overachiever and high school was no exception. That year, I was enrolled in sixteen hours of college credit through one local university, a full high school course load, plus a three hour evening class at a local [...]
I have had many opportunities in my life to fly. I don’t have a pilot’s license, although maybe someday I’ll seek one. In the meantime, I love to fly as a passenger, in spite of stories like this and the many delays that you may encounter in an airport. So, lacking something else to say [...]
Not too long ago, I reconnected with an old friend from high school. Until yesterday, we had only chatted and emailed. Then, in the course of those chats and emails, we discovered a true “small world” connection…
This friend (I’ll call her Karrie to protect her privacy) has been married and divorced since high school. That [...]
Yesterday I ate lunch at Mcdonalds. I had a lot of reasons for that – mostly, I was out running errands and needed to pick up lunch somewhere, and McDonalds was there. So I bought a meal and found a table in the corner – my favorite place to sit when I’m eating out alone. [...]
I got into my first car accident shortly after I got my license at age 16. It’s not as bad as it sounds, though; the accident was not my fault. In fact, I was hit by another teenage driver in my high school parking lot. This girl backed her car out straight into mine. Irritating [...]
My mom was an Air Force kid who moved a lot during her childhood, but she hated it. So as a result, once they had kids, my parents put down roots. My first move was after high school, when I moved to college, and I “moved” back and forth from there several times. After college, [...]
I remember, when I was in high school, and my English teachers required us to read and study old, “classic” poems.
Now don’t get me wrong here. I’m not a poet, but I am a writer. I see the value in poetry and I understand why poetry is written.
But in high school, when I was presented [...]
Remember when you were a kid, and your mom wrote your name inside your underpants?
It was embarrassing, and you hated it. Until you got older… and realized how smart she was.
When I went to college, I chose to label practically everything I owned. Clothes, office supplies, housewares, you name it… I had a sticky fingered [...]
I was in 4th grade when I went through my horse phase. I think every American girl goes through a horse phase, or at least it seems like it. I wanted all the horse gear – the helmets and riding pants and Lucchese boots that the girls in all my favorite books wore. I wanted [...]
I’ve been thinking all day about what to write. This is such an intensely powerful and tragic day in our nation’s history. There are no words to describe this day. All I can say is a gentle promise to those who died, and those who survived: I will never forget you.
It seems appropriate for me [...]