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LJ Idol: Never Too Hard
We met in high school, and if we wind up getting married some day (I think we’ve got a damn good shot, too) that will be impossibly cute and alarmingly pat ( Read more... ) -
Own it.
I frequently find myself feeling like an impostor.
Let me explain. Or better yet, let the New York Times explain:
Social psychologists have studied what they call the impostor phenomenon since at least the 1970s, when a pair of therapists at Georgia State University used the phrase to describe the internal experience of a group of high-achieving ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: My most annoying personality trait
I talk too much ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: I fought the law
I was 17 and angry.
Stories about fighting the law that start with angry 17-year-olds can pretty much go one of two ways. Put very, very simply, in distilled black and white, the kid can do something bad or something good.
I did something good.
I went to what was then a "highly selective" public high school in Staten Island. For those familiar with ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 10: Welcome to My Shop
Whose LJ is it anyway? Balancing personal expression and friends-list sensibilities in determining content.It’s my LJ. That’s why I like it so much ( Read more... ) -
Scarred
It was cold outside, and there was snow on the ground. I was in the first grade, waiting for the school bus outside with some friends and a neighbor, who was keeping an eye on me while my mother took my little sister home to get warm ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol: 2008
There were 30 seconds left in 2007 and I was alone in a crowd, a mostly quiet observer. A couple from Miami I had just interviewed was behind me, shouting in unison with hundreds of other people on Boston Common. My feet felt so frozen I was beginning to get a little bit worried about potential permanent toe damage ( Read more... ) -
We swore forever friends, on the backstreets until the end
I don’t think Jesse and I had much choice in the matter of our being best friends. Our mothers were best friends since they were five years old, and Jesse was just a year older than I was, so we spent a lot of our childhood playing together. We got much closer around 10 or 11, but we were always best friends. That’s just how it was ( Read more... )