Which is why, when the maître d’ approaches my side, I don’t pick up on the gravity of his whisper. No one would. Because learning that my credit card has been declined for this business dinner is definitely not part of the plan, and the areas of my brain assigned to processing ...
“horse girl phase” and bought me my first Morgan in high school. I decided if I ever wanted to do horses full time I’d have to make it a career. I got a degree in Equine Management from the University of New Hampshire and was lucky enough to intern and teach lessons at Taylor ...
An anime populated by anthropomorphized animals, "Beastars" is a malleable allegory (it's sometimes referred to as "Zootopia" for adults) set right at the intersection of high school angst and film noir brooding. At Cherryton Academy, relations between predator and prey have been hanging by a...
What I can say is Robyn’s mind is a wild place—believe me when I say it has created more than just me! But conceptually I was born much longer ago. You see, Robyn is a real geek for everything prehistoric, so when she concocted a friend, she modelled me on a real-life ancient...
High school is supposed to be about studying, socializing, and marching-band practice. Not fighting vampires. Then one night flipped my world inside out―now, my life sucks. But it isn’t all bad. I’m at a slayer academy, learning things like the real origin of vamps and how to make...
Examine the following opening passage of Chris Lynch's Gypsy Davey (1994): My sister Joanne has a baby and sometimes after school I go over there and I help her with it and she lets me have a glass of wine and then I start to think of things. Things like that I'm really good ...
Perhaps they’ve been living with their parents ever since high school, and now as adults, they control the house. Let me be clear: if your child is controlling your house, then you are allowing yourself to be controlled. And if your kids have never left, it’s because you have...
These frustrations stem from the same discounting of delayed payoffs that affect all the have-to duties in adult life, in both cases eroding one’s well-being and sense of self. Even well-intentioned exhortations to enjoy learning and take classes on topics one finds interesting is for many...
struggles. Kazunomiya, or Chikako (her nickname), is the younger half-sister of the Emperor, which means she has been betrothed to be married to the prince Arisugawa ever since they were small children and has been brought up to live at court—learning calligraphy, poetry, music, and ...
Allows learning in a safe, non-judgemental, open and sharing atmosphere. A Gathering of true friends in Central Florida…, FetLife, verified 2015-Mar-22 Simple group of people that are true friends, or searching for some, people you can rely on being there in the bad times as well as ...