At the end of seventh grade, a wonderful young woman took the time to sit down next to me one day at the end of a band period. There had been a particularly obvious display of how my peers treated me that day. Her boyfriend at the time was involved in that display. It was… Continue reading My Three Maidens
Series: Three Maidens
Convention-al Crush (Or ‘How I Got to Know Kristen by Accidentally Becoming an Actor’)
After three hellish years in middle school, I was determined to make as clean a start as possible in high school. I was back in with people I could relate to better (those a year ahead of me) and there was a larger pool of potential friends (a whole extra year, as a matter of… Continue reading Convention-al Crush (Or ‘How I Got to Know Kristen by Accidentally Becoming an Actor’)
Hump Day Crush: Words from Long Ago
I’ve been reading through old journals of mine from high school. Some of it is quite painful. Not just because of my bad spelling and even worse handwriting, but because I had some really seriously depressed times back then. My head was far from screwed on straight and I had very little conscious clue of… Continue reading Hump Day Crush: Words from Long Ago