By the time I was eight, I was already turning my nose up and brand names. It was impossible not to notice all the kids in my class walking around with clothes and shoes emblazoned with a label and I was like, are you a billboard? So this little tradition started-- at the beginning of every school year, I was provided with a brand new pair of white ( Read more... )

I never knew her name. She told me to call her Stephanie and when I asked her if it was her real name she told me no. When she asked for mine, I told her Heather, because she had just left and it was the first thing that popped into my head. Stephanie asked me if Heather was what my parents named me and I told her yes, because if she won't tell me ( Read more... )

They're saying Pluto's not a planet anymore. I heard about this in the grocery store. My stock of hohos was swiftly dwindling and my supply of hot pockets needed replenishing, which explains why I was shopping at all; unless Kate or someone comes over with bags of processed food and cheap wine, my cupboards and refrigerator stay fairly bare save ( Read more... )

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY