Mom says you should never ask for advice you aren’t willing to take. I wasn’t sure I agreed. Having an unbiased pair of eyes point out a sensible solution was helpful. But the sensible thing and the right thing weren’t always the same choice, and no one but you could truly understand the difference.

Porter grins at me and rubs his hands together excitedly. “This looks super weird. I’m so in. Let’s play.

Everything we do in life affects someone else.

This was the night bus, not a Journey song. Two strangers were not on a midnight train going anywhere. I was going home, and he was probably going to knock over a liquor store.

It’s a shame I’m going to be forced to commit severe testicular trauma upon that boy.

Before, my anxiety was singing solo. Now all this weird anticipation and jumbled excitement has added some strange harmonies into the mix. I’m a barbershop quartet basket case.

Too weird for jocks, and not weird enough for hipsters, I was neither freak nor geek, and that left me stranded in no-man’s-land.

Why is the vegetarian Buddhist dressed like a jewel thief?

It’s being a capable human being, which is something I think a lot of people have forgotten how to do.

He swore it was an accident, and that I’m “too white” and bruise too easily.