In high school, my very favorite person was named Paige.  She had joined our tight-knit little class pretty late along the way but fit in re...

In the years since I realized she was being silly, maybe even neurotic.  It had me plenty worried at the time, though.  In the summer betwee...

 In her song “I Know Victoria’s Secret,” singer Jax reveals that Victoria’s secret is that she was made up by an old man living in Ohio.  Sh...

It’s been about a year since I started letting the world read my daily journals or significant parts of them.  I began writing them forty-fi...

My friends are very bright.  They teach me things all the time.  I learned a new word the other day.  A “Rainbow Baby” is a child born after...

 June is pride month.  I don't like the idea that we have to assign months where people can be proud of who they are.  That should be ev...

A lot of people find things they don't understand are intimidating.  It's a natural reaction.  If you don't know what's in a...