Something has changed, and now, when I look at my students, I see only people who are going to eat up my time.
Sometimes, when I find it hard to sleep, I’ll think of when we first met, of the newness of each other’s body, and my impatience to know everything about this person. Looking back, I should have taken...
That, the chief counselor said, is what happens to people who play around. If this was the punishment for a boy and a girl, I felt certain the penalty for two boys somehow involved barbed wire, a team...
That’s the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they’re nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted.
The crummy part of swimming is that while you’re doing it you can’t really see much: the bottom of the pool, certainly, a smudged and fleeting bit of the outside world as you turn your head to breathe...
The part of my plan that made old people uncomfortable, that exposed them for the bigots they were—and on a Sunday!—still appealed to me.
The problem isn't gaining weight, it's gaining it in the right place.
The six to eight black men were characterized as personal slaves until the mid-1950s, when the political climate changed and it was decided that instead of being slaves they were just good friends.
The slumber party took place in what the Methodists called a family room, the Catholics used as an extra bedroom, and the neighborhood's only Jews had turned into a combination darkroom and fallout sh...
The third guest, a poet, had recently published a memoir about her cancer and the many operations performed in an effort to reconstruct her jaw.
The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than good old-fashioned loathing.
There was a sink for washing glasses and an assortment of cartoon napkins illustrating the lighter side of alcoholism.
This is hurting me a lot more than it’s hurting you, he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he was right. Worse than the boil was the stuff that came out of it. What got to me, a...
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.
To spend your days in the company of naked men - that was the life for me. 'Turn a bit to the left, Jean-Claude. I long to capture the playful quality of your buttocks.
Today a child told Santa Ken that he wanted his dead father back and a complete set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Everyone wants those Turtles.
Use the word 'ya'll' and before you knew it, you'd find yourself in a haystack french-kissing an underage goat
WHEN ASKED What do we need to learn this for? any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and sta...
Well, where did it come from? I asked. How did I get it?
When it comes time to decide who gets the bottom bunk, I think anyone would agree that there’s a lot to be said for doing things the hard way.
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