I had been excited to go on the Veterans Trip. I hadn’t come into contact with many before, so I had this idealized version of war veterans that I had created for myself, y’know, the old guys who will sit back and talk about their glory days, the days when they were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country, and some of their friends ( Read more... )

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John P. Irwin’s face crinkles with laughter over something his young student has told him, his eyes dancing away the many, many years he’s put into his life. The teacher cracks a joke in return, and the two laugh together, the generation gap, or rather, gaps, disappearing with the shared laughter. But the two are not there to make fun, no, the ( Read more... )

The female doctor went on a walk to a castle. She brought with her roast chicken and roast pork, and cucumbers and bell peppers, which was she decided she would use to stuff her meat with. This particular doctor was a very good cook, although, i would have guessed that the reader would have guessed this already by now, seeing as not many ( Read more... )

I visited an old friend tonight. It's been done so many times by so many people over so many years, so it's become cliche, but I'm going to use it anyway, because, I'm not sure how else to put it. To use another old friend cliche, it was good to see him again. He was doing alright, having a decent college experience, and gave me some good advice on ( Read more... )

Today was boring. I did schoolwork. Went to school. Ate lunch. Talked about the hand job that happened in lunch yesterday. That she pulled it off without any teacher seeing her, and without anyone blocking the view from the other side of the table, is amazing. Give that girl a medal ( Read more... )

I was lying in bed. Thinking. Remembering. I was remembering last summer. I had come from lifeguarding at the Mill Hall Pool, and Johnny, and Dan, and Abby and Lindsay and Erin were at the park playing volleyball. Johnny called me to come down, so I did, and I played volleyball with them, and then we lay down in the grass, and, with our feet bare ( Read more... )

Today is depressing. The weather, my house, my head, depressed. Depression set in before I even woke up. I stayed up late last night, even though I didn't go out, because I was too tired, and read The Poisonwood Bible. Then when I finally went to bed, I dreamt my family was in a graveyard, which I guess isn't too bad, because it was a fairly nice ( Read more... )

Today was huge. I had been anticipating today's match nervously all morning. It was the first thing I thought of when I woke up in the morning, and the last thing I had thought of when I went to bed last night at eleven forty after staying up late playing Tetris and watching The Polar Express with Johnny. I struggled to swallow my cheerios, because ( Read more... )

I ran with my dog today, running the loop that my dad and I used to run on early weekday mornings when I was in late grade school and my Dad hadn't hurt his back and my dog didn't have lyme's disease. It's about 2 and a half miles if you start from the Jay Street Bridge. I ran from my house, so it was probably closer to three. My Dad and Ferne (my ( Read more... )