Through most of my elementary school years, I was friends with a girl named Kim who lived in a corner brick house with a flat roof one block over from us. The house itself looked like a brick wall barrier from the outside, but inside the gate was an in-ground…
This past Friday, Corinne’s school unexpectedly released all of the students early, and her friend Lanisa needed a ride. Instead of going home, Lanisa asked her parents if she could spend the afternoon with Corinne. While they were hanging out, Corinne told Lanisa about the letterman sweater that my dad…
Two weeks ago, I really wanted to yell at Corinne on the nearly 10-minute drive to school. Instead, I snipped at her, cried on the way home, started a load of laundry, and proceeded to have potato salad and a Diet Coke for breakfast…all before 7 a.m. If you can…
