Cheri grinned cockily at Pam and turned to Chelsea. “I figure my coffee won’t have time to get cold before this is over.
It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
Before I can say anything else, he steps forward and takes my face in his hands. Then he's kissing me one last time.
Sometimes I look in the mirror and think I'm really good looking. Then other times I think my body's all wrong.
My bed’s comforter is yellow. It has to be to hide all the melted butter stains. I make love like microwave popcorn—only in half the time!
We made love like my foot cramped up in the middle. That was the last time I tried to do a marathon session.
I drive by the spot of my injury, because each time I do, the pain lessens, and it teaches me a lesson.
My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.
Back in time it seemed that having a sister were a tragedy. Instead it is one of the best presents my parents could have ever given me.
In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.
Guerilla warfare? I was in way over my head. I told myself that I could do this. It was guerilla warfare every time I went to sleep.
I sprained my knee. I was Elbowing at the time. Elbowing is a new dance I invented for those random moments of romance that break out at funerals.
I just made some ice cream soup—for winter, or the next time you visit Antarctica. It’s freezable and reheatable, like my love.
I walked to work. I paced up and down the bus looking for a seat. Next time I walk to work I’m getting on my treadmill.
My mustache can be your toothbrush for the one-time low cost of $1.23. Each mustoothbrush is made from 100% recycled material.
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
My trash can got stolen five times. Finally the owner just let me have it.
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.
I've had ups and downs with my skin, but after some time, I've learned what works best and what products I need to stay away from.
My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.
