Underage Drinking
Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler waded through a rockin’ teenage party in search of his son and didn’t notice all of the drinking underagers: Gansler, a Democrat who is running for governor, said...
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Appomattox Courthouse Is the Captain of the Basketball Team
The subject of cheating seems to be coming up here and there. A lot of it pertaining to this article, written by a professional ghostwriter for college papers. Further commentary by Otherwill and Rufus...
View ArticleHypoThursday: Physical Education
This actually isn’t hypothetical, because it happened to a classmate in my college phys-ed class. About a third of our grade was based on overall physical fitness (our ability to run the...
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Lessons in Life: Instructions
When I was in high school, my favorite (in the sense that I kind of liked him and was indifferent to or detested the others) was Mr Holt. Holt was a retired chemical engineer who struck it big with...
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The Fourth Grade Class
A reminder that I came up in the 80’s… I didn’t say *my* 4th grade class. Even so, this was another class in my school, so I knew a lot of the kids because I was in the same class as them in earlier...
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The Beauty & The Invisible Girl
I’ve commented before that in high school, I typically often lunch alone. It was a combination of back luck (always seeming to have a different lunch period from all of my friends) and an inability to...
View ArticleChildish Things II: Voltron
-{Childish Things}- For some reason, I got it in my head to watch an episode or two of Voltron. I have fond memories of Voltron. I remember the playground at West Oak Elementary where we used to argue...
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The Girl in PE Dance
When I was in middle school, one of the things we had to do for physical education was “dance.” Like, partnered dancing. To do this, obviously, you needed partners. The way that the coaches had it set...
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A Tuesday In September
Several years ago on a Monday in September, things were not going well between Evangeline and I. That Thursday night I was going to take a trip out to Gilead and visit my friend Clint who was...
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Pissing Law School Away
When I was a junior in college, I was riding a pretty high tide. My grades were good; I had a steady girlfriend that I’d been dating for a couple of years; I was thinking that the sky was the limit....
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Belatedly Canned Juice
It’s funny how so many years later, the anger and the anger over the anger about OJ Simpson’s acquittal in California still lingers. The subject came up on the smoking docks of the company I worked at...
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Undone
When I was in high school, Mr. Hiller, my government teacher, asked every girl in the class to stand up. Then he asked every student who was not white and whose parents weren’t white to stand up....
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Who The Hell is Cody Weaver?
The first day of Mr. Hiller’s government class started off like the first day of the five classes that preceded it. He started off taking roll. As anyone that doesn’t go by their formal first name...
View ArticleA Girl Unlike Other Girls
I’ve mentioned before that I wasted a lot of time when I was young watching and re-watching the same episodes of Matlock. Matlock, because it was always on every day and, when we got cable, on several...
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Breakfast After Ten
Evangeline and I had some pretty substantial overlap in our taste in music, but it was never complete. I had recently picked up a country music habit that she couldn’t really embrace and she was...
View ArticleTracking Down Tracey
Having made a run at Facebook and Twitter, thus far Twitter has been something of a bust but Facebook has taken off like gangbusters. I can see why Mitch and Clancy took such a liking to it. Most of...
View ArticleMy History in Popularity: West Oak Elementary
-{Introduction}- Different people divide the strata in K-12 society differently. Some people say that there is “the popular” and “the unpopular”. I personally divide people into three categories: the...
View ArticleMy History in Popularity: Larkhill Intermediate School
-{Previously on “My History in Popularity”…}- I previously discussed my relatively sanguine experiences in elementary school where I was guarded by my parents’ position in the community, some...
View ArticleMy History in Popularity: Mayne High School
-{Previously on “My History in Popularity”…}- I discussed the hellish experience that was junior high, where I had to bribe people to leave me alone or act friendly. Things had improved by the 8th...
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Twisting In The Whirlwind
On the Camelot BBS I came to sorta know a girl who went by the name Whirlwind. I was a poor friend to her brother and a good fake son to her mother. For some reason (I can think of a few), she just...
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High School Theater
My first close friend of the female persuasion was Andrea Carmine. It was sort of an accident how I became friends with her. Well, it asn’t an accident at all. It was a failed attempt at manipulation....
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Check Yes Or No
One of my earliest crushes was to a girl named Clementine Giovanni. Clementine was a tall, slender girl that was really pretty for a fifth grader in the eyes of a fifth grader. She was the first girl...
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The Mega-Binder
When I was growing up, there was the annual ritual of buying school supplies. They included the typical things such as pencils and papers. The big buy, however, was the binder. Each year we got one...
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Never Should Have Eaten Alone
In a long discussion with Phi about the whole Phoebe Prince mess, the subject of friendships in the lower echelons of high school popularity. He commented that when he was younger he had friendships...
View ArticleLamar Heston, Superstar
The subject of gifted and talented programs has been coming up, which reminds me of the story of Lamar Heston and the Superstars program. The Superstars program was a Southfield-Mayne Regional School...
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