The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late

Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.

I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

I often cannot believe the things I do.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned