It Would Break Me

In the weeks leading up to our three-week vacation, I asked Will if he was sure he didn’t want to do double school, reminding him that if he did, he would get six weeks off once we returned. He said he was sure. “It would break me,” he said. Teenage melodrama, meet your match. Will […]

Fractional Addiction

I remembered a dream, in which I was interviewing for a promotion. At one point, I looked down and noticed I was wearing athletic shorts and a wife-beater, but no one on the panel seemed to notice. Things took an even stranger turn when one of the panelists, a female colleague, started asking me horse-related […]