“Your beard looks so amazing,” one of the ladies at our table cooed. I flushed a little under my whiskers. “Thank y…” “It sparkles.” She turned to her companion. “Doesn’t it sparkle?” The second lady leaned in, chewed her lip, and nodded. “Yes. Yes, it does.” She ...
The summit of the gleaming playground slide towered above me. The only reason I kept clomping up the 3,000 steps to the peak was the shouts and jeers of the crush of fellow kindergartners pushing me upward even as I wriggled for an escape. About a half-mile up, I stammered, “I... I changed ...
I’d never heard such an outrageous lie. I was ashamed to be related to the man who told it to me. “JH,” as I’ll call him here, expected us to believe that he completed a repair project on his vehicle WITHOUT A SINGLE SNAG. Yeah, right. No man in the history of time ever finished a ...
Nothing so tried my young patience as the words, “Allow six to eight weeks for delivery.” Six to eight weeks took as long as three years to crawl along by a little boy’s hourglass. The only thing that took more time to arrive than “allow six to eight weeks for delivery” was ...
I still wonder what time it was when those two trains crossed. You know the ones. We met them in third-grade math class story problems: “A train leaves the station in Chicago at 3 p.m., headed to Cleveland, at an average speed of 47 mph. Another train leaves Cleveland at 4 p.m. for ...
I miss road maps. They were like fitted sheets for the car — wonderful to keep things in place, but nearly impossible to refold. Sometimes it was easiest on your blood pressure to crumple them into a ball and cram them into the glove box, which is your closet or junk drawer on wheels. We ...
