Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who absolutely hates the holidays. Of course, being the only vocal nonbeliever in a family of absolute nuts, it's not really hard to believe.  But I still participate...

I've been trying to write a story for several months now, but the problem seems to be that I don't quite know what to write about.  I know I want to write - I can recognize that feeling - but I just cannot...

Most days I have to set two alarms just to ensure that I will roll out of bed 40 minutes afterwards.  I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.  At least I hope I'm not, because that would make me weird,...

So, Halloween's coming up, and I still don't have a costume.  For the past three years, Target has faithfully stocked a certain costume, which I have kept my eye on.  For these past three years, I have...

It's hard to believe that September is almost over already.  Well, actually, it isn't that hard to believe, but it still feels like school has barely started.  We are almost halfway through the semester,...

I've been told many times that I look a lot younger than I actually am.  At the rate I seem to be aging, I estimate that the movie theater will stop giving me child prices by the time I'm 87. That's not...

This summer, my dog died.  It was a very harrowing and gross affair, and many tears were shed by me and by my parents.  The cat appeared not to care, but he probably did. I could describe in gross detail...

On the standardized writing tests we were  forced to take throughout grade school, we were always expected to write about ourselves, to which I would always default to something stupid and outlandish....