These exchanges are, in my experience, among the most animated, delight-ridden; for a moment, a spirit of childlike wonder reawakens inside us as we remember what it was like to experience the story for the first time.
Somewhere along the way I lost one half of my favorite pair of mittens, like a minor arc in Little Women, and I tried to not let it ruin my day.
I’m going to comment on every piece I read for the post this year.
In life, she said, we often have to sacrifice our ideals for the system that actually works.
He runs away as soon as we take his boots out.
I got excited about all the things we are going to be doing at the festival, the conversations I haven’t had yet, all the Diet Cokes I am going to drink.
I feel like I’ve never looked so long and hard at that abyss of nothingness.
The Zorg arrived in Jamaica with less than half of the Africans that it had set sail with still alive. Their prize for survival was the island’s sugar plantations, where newly arrived slaves had an average lifespan of three years.
When I do a movie night at a friend’s house, I never show up without anything less than four DVDs on hand.
I saw somebody die once.
