Tag: diaries

  • My Teenage Diaries: The Gifts That Keep Giving

    My Teenage Diaries: The Gifts That Keep Giving

    Of late, I’ve been mining my teenage diaries as source material for an essay I’m writing. The collateral joy from this process has been surprising. Because, well, I was an idiot when I was a teenager. I was cruel and bitchy and loving and fun and wishing and wanting and sad and judgmental and snide. Already, […]

  • Dump It

    Dump It

    She changed me. Her name is Keri, and although she started out as a student in a few of my classes, she ended up becoming a friend for life, someone whose innate light defeated the chilling darkness of her early years. Keri was treated as harshly as a person can be. Yet when I think of her, […]