Thinking about how kind my HS English teacher was. When she was dying of cancer she spent the yr teaching us about debt and scholarships and we made college binders for class in between shakespeare. It avoided disaster for a lot of us. While she was sick, the whole time.
After waiting 40 min in line, the @Hertz representative slammed the gate on all customers + said there were no other cars available at the location - and there was no number we could call for further assistance. Is this how you treat your customers? No car for a weekend trip now.
It took me a year and a month to remove my father from my contacts and almost a year to remove my mother. George Carlin had a wonderful routine about how when people die, he lets them stay in the address book for six weeks. I’m not that tough.
Growing up, games weren’t v accessible to me. I remember saving up for over a year to afford my GameCube, but owning actual games was much harder. I played a lot of bargain bin stuff, rented a lot, bought used, etc. 1/?
Wow floored by this poem by Luke Allan in the @PoetrySociety’s National Poetry Competition Winners’ Anthology.
‘The best time to take a shower with the lights off is forever.’