accidentally buying What A Girl Wants on the hotel television, and watching the whole thing with me anyway
how he gave me Nine Stories and a bouquet for eighth grade graduation, how the green chrysanthemum lasted into july, how The Laughing Man was his favorite
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Just Clever Or Worse: On Lifeguarding
once again, i got one shift a week for lifeguarding this term and once again, I guard while the team practices. I wanted more, but i am busy and maybe its good. lifeguarding here makes me happy and sad. it almost always makes me think of camp. it is much easier to lifeguard a pool with a visible…
Just Clever Or Worse: so now I’ve been thinking about E.L. Koningsburg and how much I loved...
so now I’ve been thinking about E.L. Koningsburg and how much I loved The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place and i couldn’t even really explain to you why, but that book just resonated with me so deeply. and then much later, i read silent to the bone, and i knew that it was terrific even though i felt…