*<:-) birthday wishes and reminiscences

I hate it when people take things for granted

Homecoming

My girlfriend in high school and I – we went Homecoming dances, stuff like that. One time I danced with one of her friends at her prom. And afterwards her friend wrote me emails that were like, “it felt so right when we were dancing at Homecoming.” And I was like, um, [...]

Eventually I was 3

My grandmother took care of me when I was a baby. My mother died when I was one and a half and my father was in his first year of law school, so his mother took me in and took me around on her trips to collect rent from her tenants and eventually I [...]

Cracking the code

My mother was very aware as a kid that her mother was ill. My grandmother was sick her whole life. She knew that her mother was not well, and she knew that if she wanted to understand what was happening she’s have to crack the code, because every time something was wrong, my [...]

There’s only so much you can do when it’s cold out there.

In terms of recreation, the climatic factor is very important because there’s only so much you can do when it’s cold out there. My family was not into sports, I know some people who were, and since the city was close to the mountains, they would go skiing. My family did not do [...]