Okay, so 2005 hasn’t gotten off to great start, but I expected it. How could I not? After a Chinese dinner with H.E., my fortune told me, “The current year will bring you much happiness.” Just my luck. It was New Year’s Eve at the time. December 31, 2004, and only a handful of hours before the “current year” was over. So 2005 began with pain and rain and doctor’s appointments. My computer nearly died, and my commute’s eerily fried,…
I’ve debated whether or not I should even write this Kodak Moment, as it’s not really one of my own. It rightfully belongs to a young man with whom I went to high school, a young man whom my friend Jenny once called the Filipino Tom Cruise. Filipino Tom Cruise has a name, but for his protection I won’t say what it is. All we ever need to know is that Filipino Tom Cruise was a veritable cutie, a popular…
Would you say that college cheerleading is an in-your-face kind of extracurricular activity? I would. After I graduated from high school and “retired” from two years of varsity cheerleading, I focused fully on my academic classes and within half a year found myself bored and restless. I needed to get back into some kind of rigorous physical activity, so in the spring of the next year, I tried out for the college cheersquad. Lucky for me, some of my old…
One item of “stuff” I’ve kept from middle school is a Tootsie Roll bank, about 20 inches tall, with a coin slot in the plastic lid. I can’t bring myself to throw it out because it’s useful for keeping coins I never actually keep and because it’s tied to a Kodak Moment. I was in the eighth grade, and my P.E. class was scheduled to be in the auditorium for some kind of presentation. So my friends and I, instead…
Meredith lived four houses up the street from me, and out of all my seventh grade girl friends, she was the only one with a pool in the backyard. This meant a lot of parties at her house, and with her place being only a hop-skip-and-a-jump away, it also meant that my kid sister could tag along every now and then. One day, my friend Mary brought over her new boyfriend Shannon, who had the dreamiest Irish blue eyes and…