Stories tagged “lessons”

  • Do-over

    So He and I talk for a bit. Honestly, I don’t get much of it. He’s one of those lofty types, with high-minded notions and sad faces. Eventually, he booms out something about me “getting it eventually”, and I’m escorted awa...

  • A Blessing but a Curse

    Lift this curse from me! I realize now that I was wrong, and if I could undo the damage I have caused, then I would wish it so! Why did you feel the need to teach me a lesson like this? There must have been a million other ways you could have rebuked m...

  • The Ghosts of Summers Past

    Two years have passed since we touched hands through the chain length fence, all forbidden fruit and hormones. On especially quiet Sundays, I often find myself laying in the grass; the very spot where we once laughed and talked and planned for a future...

  • Lesson

    I remember sitting in Babcia’s kitchen (babcia is Polish for “grandmother”, so that’s how we address her). I was in eighth grade at the time. Our teacher made us take a unit on the Holocaust, and, knowing that Babcia had been bo...

  • All Kinds of Problems at Eight A.M.

    If there is one thing that I learned from having kids- it’s always have a backup plan, particularly when it comes to the refrigerator. It doesn’t matter how old they are, everything in there is assumed to be free game. You can put notes on ...