My favorite game as a kid consisted of desks, a chalkboard and pencils. Forget the Barbie, baby dolls or any other girlie toy. I often volunteered to be the teacher, and was occasionally denied by my older siblings, but more so by my youngest, who enjoyed being in charge. Still, I wished one day I’d be the teacher, then I could write on the chalkboard and grade papers. Maybe someday.

Sometimes people come into my life and make me feel alive. I sacrifice a lot to be in their presence. For example, I did the one thing I never do; take on extra hours at work.

I changed into a zombie. No, It wasn’t a costume I could change in and out of. I had turned into a full-fledged flesh-draining creature. It was not my intention to turn into this being.

After seeing Footloose, both the new and the old versions, I thought I could make a difference. I believed I could change laws and create a movement. For starters, I could prove a religious need to take away all dancing. Mostly just because I’m saving people from being subjected to my dancing.

I threw my fifth attempt at a column in the trash and decided to watch an old episode of Glee, rather than single-handedly destroy a rainforest or my fingernails. Glee tends to get my brain juices going, sometimes even other ones, but mostly it just makes me sing off-key and dance without...

There are mean things people say to make another person feel bad. But most of them are common and mundane. This was one of the more creative insults I’ve received and it came right from someone in my extended family. I drink blood and change people from straight to gay. My relative, at...

“I like you the way you are. It doesn’t matter what orientation you are.” These are the last words my mom might ever speak to me. “No you don’t! And you’re by far not the only one in this family who wants me to be different,” I said, slamming the door behind me. These are the...

Change is a scary word for, well, everyone. So it is no shock that it takes time for humans to progress, and for some, like Glenn Beck, they resist change so much they actually move backward, entering into an alternate universe called “disturbed reality.” I’m not smoking whatever Glenn...