One of the best things about Paris was coming back after we’d gone away. In 1923 we moved to Toronto for a year to have our son, Bumby, and when we returned, everything was the same but more somehow. It was fi
elevators. they could imagine the show was theirs alone. but the dakota was a rental; its tenants had no sense of ownership. and its west side location was odd, almost antisocial, so it didn’t attract the elite, who were sometimes called the bon ton. the first cooperative apartment build...
Teachers love him, he got elected to student council without even trying, and he’s the MVP coder of the robotics team, which has awards hanging up in the school’s front office. He doesn’t even have to try to be the best person at this school. It’s like looking at a photo that...
are for kids who take foreign languages as electives. Not kids who take acting classes or sculpture or wood-working. College was the last place in the world Marlene planned on going. High school was bad enough. Four extra years of teachers and books would put her right over...
“I think we should tell Padar that our teachers know about those boys and that they have already gotten in trouble so they won’t be bothering us anymore,” Parwin suggested eagerly. “Parwin, that’s not going to work. What are you going to say when Madar asks Khanum Behduri about...