Besides the fact that I had made a complete fool out of myself, tripping all over the sidewalk, I wasn’t sure if he was actually into me or not. Still, I spent several hours a day tucked under Lindy’s hydrangea bush in the hopes of catching a glimpse of him ambling past, whistling while he swung ...
My mother is pouring two glasses of wine. She offers me the one that is fuller, while nudging my dozing father with her foot. “Oh yes, absolutely,” my father replies obediently. I know he has not heard a word she has said. “Why, I cannot believe you...
But no. Instead, it launched an all-out revolt on me in the middle of the ocean (or bay or whatever body of water we were floating in). My nails gripped the wood—getting splinters underneath the beds—as I hurled over the side of the boat in a very unladylike fashion. The sea was nearly silent, ot...