It’s Liz’s birthday and she’s getting ready for water aerobics when one of the ladies figures it out. Amid the usual locker room banter about sagging boobs and the hunky new lifeguard and trying not to pee in the pool, Hazel realizes it’s February 29th.“Liz! You’re a Leap Year baby!”“Wait,” says Fran. “Does that mean […]
After ten minutes, I’m beyond my party limit, am starting to shake, and am working my way to the door. She says, “Hello.” If I assume cooperative principle, it follows that she is talking to me because she wants to; and, furthermore, I’m talking to her because I want to. That, I think, is a […]
“Come to the Kimball tonight,” Melanie said. “They’re showing that French movie I told you about, with the dog.” She knew I didn’t speak French, didn’t much like foreign films or her friends. But I went anyway because she was tall and blonde and her voice hit me right in the solar plexus every time, y’know? The […]
My first trust fall was in the summer after ninth grade. It was 1995. It was the summer of Alanis’s Jagged Little Pill, of Jim Carrey as the Riddler, of “if it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” For me, summer of ‘95 was also the summer of the Ulster Project.At that point in my academic […]