Real Life and Other Randomness

This was my writer's response topic for my classes last week. I gave it to them on the day I was assigning them to new seats and ne...

My friend, Courtney, has been my friend, Courtney, for 18 years now. Today, she has been my friend, Courtney, for half of her life. We'v...

Remember how I was the only girl invited into the fantasy football league at my school? Remember how I didn't seem to know what the ...

Sometimes writing is a celebration. The writer chooses a subject and holds it up to the light to inspect its beauty and paint it so with his...

I am a sports fan. I am sometimes a highly illogical sports fan. It's okay; I own it. I'm not the sort of person who believes th...

I love to gamble. For someone as cautious as I am, it seems illogical. But I come from a long line of chronic gamblers, and genetics are a b...

I had a student once, just a couple of years ago.  Here's what I knew about him then: He didn't talk to me. He didn't even rea...