TRYING SO HARD: ride ride againI used to love roller coasters. The closest one to me growing up was Six Flags Great Adventure, and it felt like the ride technology advanced every season. One summer it was a rickety wooden loops with a lap belt that barely went down, the next I was strapped in STANDING UP…
TRYING SO HARD: i finally got itI somehow managed to dodge COVID the last few years (I’m double vaccinated and triple boosted), but yesterday, it finally happened. I wasn’t even feeling sick, but my in-laws were in town and so just to be safe, I had been testing daily. Then, for the first time ever, I saw that…
TRYING SO HARD: do the right thingI found a student ID on the street and spent some time figuring out how to track down its owner. Posted on neighborhood message boards, tracked down a friend who was a professor at the school. Finally, I found them! They were excited and grateful. We texted back and forth, left…
TRYING SO HARD: growing upI’ve always loved December. Probably because it’s my birthday month. Being born on X-mas Eve always elicits a reaction from strangers — “That must suck!” “Do you get two presents or one?” — but the truth is, I have never felt like I was missing out much. Until just recently, when…
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