* WARNING :: Read at your own risk. The following post is inappropriate for people of all ages. If you are uncomfortable with your sexuality or if a young white middle-class male’s detailed recollections of sex ed classes at a small private Christian school offend you, find another blog to read or subscribe to Joel […]
I celebrated my graduation from high school by doing things of which my parents would disapprove. Rebellion is nothing unique to me. We see the light at the end of the tunnel—freedom! No more rules, no more curfew. No more questions about where we’re going, who will be there, or when we’ll be home. No […]
I am not saying that this happened in my family. This may just be something I heard about on Facebook or CNN. Okay? Do we have an understanding.
Our tiny bums were like creme-colored hillocks skewered by a radio tower.
Let me make a suggestion. If you are fifteen and learning how to drive, angst-ridden for no good reason and straining to distance yourself from your parents who “just don’t understand you,†you need to remember that everything you say can and will be used against you. Your intellectual parry-and-thrust is less impressive than you […]
If you know what’s good for you, you’ll keep such epiphanies to yourself.
My mom is given to verbal blunders. At dinner one night, she was describing an encounter she’d had that day at the grocery store. She’d drop a friend off to run inside then parked. She was waiting inside her blue Suburban. The windows were down. A man pulled into the parking space to her left, […]
