Where I’m From
Writing Is Destiny
“I am made of my over-reactive mom and my under-reactive dad.”
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Listing
Abe the Cat, Kafka, Johnny Cash, My Father, etc.
“I become passive, overwhelmed, immobilized. I elude myself, my purpose defeated.”
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Paris Dreaming
Skeptic & SchoolLess (Reporting) Take a Trip
“Once we got back, my mom went back to her normal self, and so did I.”
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Sloth Daddy
Right Back at You, Tiger Mother
“Once you start down that road—race to the top, race to nowhere, go, go, go!—it’s night near impossible to reverse course.”
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Not Too Optimistic
Assessing “The Project” Now & Into the Future
“Most people should not be home schooled, my dad says, and I agree.”
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I’m Not Dostoevsky
On Wallowing, Executive Dysfunction, & Other Mishigas
"I am not a sick man. I am not a spiteful man. I am not an unpleasant man. My liver, as far as I know, is in excellent health."
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Unity & Coherence
Some Who Can Teach
“I wonder if he would even remember me, an odd blip of a student, a quietly disobedient boy from another time and place?”
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The Right to Be Lazy
Balancing (or trying to) Work & Relaxation
“Parents expect too much from their kids. Their expectations are too specific.”
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