The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.

Never underestimate yourself

On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamigoes and then barfed his guts up.

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.