Koren's RA:

"Look," she says, lowering her voice and leaning down the way people do when they speak to children.  "I know what goes on.  I was in your shoes just one year ago.  Believe me, I don't want to report you any more than you want to be reported.  If you drink, keep your voices down and your doors closed.  What goes on behind closed doors is ( Read more... )

During times of booze, girls are responsible for nurturing one another.  If drinking is like playing grown-up or playing house, somebody has to be the mother.  I add this to my list of drinking commandments, alongside Thou shalt select a designated driver.

If girls need to defend each other while they drink, sex is the threat we need to protect one ( Read more... )

I don't think it's no coincidnce that a shot is called a shot.  You throw back that little jigger of liquor with the same urgency with which a gun fires ammunition into open space.  You feel the same ringing in your ears, the same kickback in your arms and chest.  The first time you drink, you don't aim to get drunk.  The thrill of pulling the ( Read more... )

I've been dying to read this book, Smashed by Koren Zailckas for quite some time now.  I started it today and in the preface I see many aspects of myself.  Expect many passages to be quoted in my journal because in some ways I feel like it explains me to myself, and because after I finish I'll have to let my mom read it to understand me more.

In ( Read more... )