The night before my senior prom and about three weeks before I graduated high school, I found out that my dad was having an affair and had moved out. The ensuing divorce ripped my family apart, as divorce is wont to do. Luckily, I sort of got to escape the insanity by moving off to [...]
I met Sarah long before we became friends: I registered her and Chris at Bed Bath & Beyond. Then we met again in Pummill 401 (the English Department‘s Graduate Assistants office). We kind of started being friends the first semester of grad school, but our friendship really began when we started running together in the [...]
Just like Deanna and I, Beth and I have been friends since we were 10. I think the card playing started when we were 12. See, Beth and I took piano lessons from the same (awesome!) teacher, which meant that one of our mothers took us to the various piano competitions that we participated in. [...]
I have known Deanna since I was 10, can you believe that? And now, 15 years later, we are still the best of friends. I don’t really want to limit what makes me happy about Deanna to this one thing—meeting at Cielito Lindo on Campbell for salsa, queso blanco, and margaritas—but that is the last [...]