"Do you know that you're strong?"

"Tell me a secret that nobody in your life knows."

"It's funny how people are always talking about the things they aren't. The things they wished they were or wished they weren't. You ever see how people never talk about the things they truthfully are?"

"Back in...

And so there it was. The thing inside him... now outside. He was still alive... though he didn't know how. He knew he ought to go to the hospital... but all he could think about is the  tapeworm . What the hell was that thing? Was it wiggling and hissing...

Every year... somebody would have the place, the entire gang gravitated towards. Parties, never planned, would simply materialize there. On nights when the was a party elsewhere, there was no question wondering where the pre-game would be. Finally, when the night finished, and your Apartment felt too far and you...

I remember thinking  Rice Krispies were literally the thing that came in that blue box. I was floored when in college my  girlfriend made them with her mom casually inside a glass Pyrex baking dish.

I was reminded of this today because walking down the aisle of the  grocery store I...

Every kid I knew who was an  only child wanted a sibling of their own. They would tell me they wished they had somebody to play with always. I'd never say anything back to them because I knew it was wrong, but I wished I was an only child.

Sharing a...

One day he felt a sharp pain deep in his stomach. He bared it for three weeks until one humid afternoon while on the metro he collapsed. Two well built paramedic s had to strain themselves in unison to cart his well muscled body to the hospital where the doctor...

Trying to save money on  groceries , he hired consultants who analyzed his energy usage.

So look, you're exercising way too much. You know that you have to eat more  calories to cover all that you're burning? What do you do? Run? Rowing? Got ya. Well, let's try to keep that...

When he found out he had to stay on campus for  winter break he imagined he'd be alone in a ghost town. He was a little bit disappointed when he found there were in fact people walking around, driving around, and that most of the businesses were open. Sure there...

As a kid, a box of cereal felt so large. Like each box could last months. When I'd see my mom open her wallet to pay for groceries I'd see multiple 20 dollar bills and think she was mean for not buying me the toys I begged for. There was...

He didn't come from any successful place. The richest dad he knew growing up sold  sand or  gravel for a living, he still doesn't remember which one it was. But through coincidence or whatever, by the time he reached his late 30s he knew three people who were worth at...