It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.

There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

Interestingly, bonobo percussionists prefer a tempo of 280 beats per minute, the syllabic rate at which most humans speak.

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

Humor is the only reason to live.

Back in the time when life was easy, the Internet would have told me what I needed to know. The great thing about the Internet was it didn't care why you were asking.