I’m going to tell a tale of Gale, who tried to send Braille through the mail. But the envelope got caught on a nail going through the mail sorter scale, and the envelope with the Braille ripped into a tail of Braille fail ( Read more... )

I think it started with Taco Bell ( Read more... )

Fancy food is complicated ( Read more... )

My dad has a large hill beside his house. The first time it snowed while we were out there, my brother and I immediately saw it as the perfect sledding hill, except for one small problem. It dead-ended in some pretty thick woods. Of course, being around twelve and six, respectively, we didn’t at first see this as a problem. We’d just stop the sleds ( Read more... )

I'm writing this on another computer because my laptop's battery is dead. Its charger decided to stop working without warning yesterday. No problem, right? I just need to pick up the phone, call the company, and buy a new charger. Right? Right. Except ( Read more... )

The light from the setting sun dances on the water. The younger children run screaming and laughing in and out of the waves. I sit on the sand, idly tracing patterns in it with the tips of my fingers and watching my younger sister out in the water with the other children. We’ve been here for five days, but I haven’t gone into the water yet. It’s ( Read more... )

My dad gave me dishes for Christmas, mugs and saucers and little plates and big plates with pretty flower patterns around the borders ( Read more... )

My mom is always saying that my sister Sarah lives in her own world. But she doesn't mean it in the way that people usually do. My sister's never been a daydreamer. My Sarah’s world, the world in her mind, is her reality ( Read more... )

Elephants live in the apartment upstairs. They’ve been there since ( Read more... )

September 2003-I am speeding down a two-lane New Jersey highway on a tandem bicycle, quite literally a bicycle built for two. My bike captain Ed, who is doing the steering, occupies the seat in front of me. We have been on the road for nearly six hours today and have covered nearly 75 miles. The trees lining the road part for a moment, and I can ( Read more... )