There were just little things and they still made me sad, but I become better at staying in my sadness and at resisting the urge to chase it away.
Was he going to ask me to go with him? Maybe I was getting ahead of myself and he was just making conversation. Oh, why was talking to a boy so fraught with complication?
Music hadn`t always deepened my grief. For most of my sixteen years, it had healed my hurts, soothed them, given me a way to remember and the strength to move on.
I wish I could bottle this,' I whispered.'And drink it every morning.''And every day at lunch, and then again at dinner, and before bed.''You'd get sick of it,' he said.I shook my head. 'Never.''Serio...
For me to give someone a firm and enthusiastic yes or no is to presume the person I am saying yes or no to is my equal, or at least someone I feel equal to saying yes or no to, as though they are a pa...
There is a liminal space created between the powerful person and the person who is the target of unwanted attention, a liminal space between outright yes and outright no -- not a maybe-yes or maybe-no...
So what are you saying? he asked.That we'd be crazy if we don't try again. That you good for me, Will Doniger. You've proven it again and again.He hesitated before he turned to me, words hovering on...
Now you, Grandma barks at him. Yes, you, the invisible truck driver, she added, giving me a wicked grin. Go stand next to Rose over there by the stone bench and smile like you mean it.Yes, ma'am, Will...
Gymnasts develop fears about certain moves and get hang-ups about doing routines at meets or anxiety about certain rivals who can psych them out.
…) I`d learned from experience that hugging someone only encouraged the person to cry even harder and I always wanted the tears to stop. But I was beginning to understand that there would always be sa...
…) I remembered the words in the note Mom left in my Survival Kit about using my imagination. Finally, after all this time, I felt its wheels begin to turn again, slowly at first, as if they were rust...
The happier people become the more I noticed my sadness.