high school
March 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 in the home stretch toward the magical years: sixteen when I could date and eighteen when college ...
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March 10, 2010
- I love that Red Room gives writers on the space prompts. This is the first time I played into it. When I was in high school I thought I was so ugly and especially 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 shocked at how I was not fat like I seem to remember. And I was much prettier ...
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March 7, 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 I frequently patronize. It had been a long time since we met up in person and he hasn't really ...
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February 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 three fingers over the rim from a standing jump. We fool around in bio lab, flicking the ...
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January 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, walking around aimlessly. The kind of party where conversations have turned into ...
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December 16, 2009
- *ducks to avoid rocks thrown by TS-haters*Okay, so some of her stuff is irritatingly catchy, and I wish she would make more songs like White Horse and fewer songs like You Belong With Me (which is actually a very honest song and pretty much describes me and some other friends of mine and how we related to guys in high school and college but every time I hear it I want to yell "You cannot get ...
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October 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 cool weather rock concerts were held at the Peace and Friendship Park amphitheater. Different ...
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October 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 tongue so nicely. Kind of like my one-time neighbor, Ed Lowe, then-columnist for Newsday, used to enjoy ...
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October 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" in her blood. She received 15 votes, her girl friend 14 votes, a fellow in the class 13 ...
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October 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 the morally uplifting story of a lonely, miserable, mean man who finds family, love and redemption ...
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