high school | high school
Apr.25.2010
Many parents make the mistake of NOT discussing the topic of sexuality with teens. Keeping silent will not keep teens from experimenting with heterosexual activities and even homosexual activities. Studies show that more teens are questioning their sexuality and most likely parents will be the last...
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Mar.14.2010
First day of school is always exciting, at least for me. The minty smell of new school paste, pencil shavings as I shove virgin pencils into the grinder, chalk dust and, in 1969, going to high school are the highlights of the new school year. Elementary and junior high school is behind me and I'm...
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Mar.10.2010
I love that Red Room gives writers on the space prompts. This is the first time I've rolled with it.
In high school I thought I was so ugly and fat. Two years ago a friend of mine from my high school days posted a picture of me on their facebook page and tagged me. I was immediately...
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Mar.07.2010
Have you ever come across a former ex or crush and wondered what life would've been like if you had ever gone down the path you wanted to go down originally?
I came across a man I had a crush on a long time ago. He was with his girlfriend (something a gay man rarely wants to see) at a thrift store...
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Feb.22.2010
I GET AN EDGE
PART TWO
MY "INVISIBLE ANGEL."
It's 1961. I'm 18 and I've peaked. Playing on the freshman basketball team I try everything to increase my vertical leap. Deep knee bends, stairway sprints, hops and skips, leg presses--nothing works. I still can't get more than...
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Jan.14.2010
“Is that the guy who likes to have sex with dead women?”
“No, I think that’s just a myth.”
“Do you want another line?”
“When I’m done. I’m almost done. Maybe. Okay, yes.”
My boyfriend walks away. The party continues around me. This is the ugly kind of party where people have turned into zombies,...
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Oct.29.2009
I'm here to report Natalie came home the other day disappointed and a bit angry. She did not get elected into the student council. The most well known kids in the high school are in rock bands and the most well known kids are the ones that get into student council.
On Saturday evenings until...
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Oct.17.2009
One of my all-time favorite quotes is in French.
"Honni soit qui mal y pense."by Victo Hugo or maybe it was Guy de Maupassant. whatever. The point is that at the amazingly ripe age of "over-50", I realize that I really only like that quote because it rolls off my American...
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Oct.15.2009
Election excitement is still in the air. Two days ago Natalie came home from high school and announced that she had gotten the most votes for the position of classroom president, but she didn't get the job. She was very indignant. Being originally from The States she has "winner take all...
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Oct.11.2009
In high school, with a brain battered by hormones, I labored through Silas Marner by George Eliot. It’s a small book, but at the time it seemed like a thousand pages of slogging through a swamp of words, every paragraph sucking at your feet. I found the book bleak and depressing, even though it is...
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