I met Marie almost nineteen years ago at the bookstore. She was three years older than I was, but we got along marvelously. We had similar intellects, values, and senses of humor. She was hella cool. -5. Well, it didn’t take long for me to like her—as in walk-around-in-a-haze, write-her-stupid-poetry-that-no-one-would-ever-read-but-me like her. Couple that with … Read more
I’ve been hesitant to make too many lifestyle changes simultaneously. More than once, I’ve gotten mentally excited about living correctly, and tried to quit smoking, eat healthier, and get more exercise, all starting on a Monday morning. That’s not a recipe for just failure. That’s a recipe for spinning completely to pieces, with rivets flying … Read more
I’ve never had any motivation for higher mathematics. I stopped at trigonometry in high school, and I took a course called business calculus in college that was tailor-made for liberal arts majors who didn’t plan to enter “the sequence” (Calculus I-IV). I escaped with a B, and I worked my ass off for it. The … Read more