Everyone has moments of weakness. But that doesn’t make you weak.

I’m a giant pimple on the face of humanity.

I was deep in a dream about photography-walking through a strange city with buildings that stretched so high they disappeared into the clouds. And every time I took a picture of one, it shivered and...

So now, not only did my best friend leave, but the cheerleaders and their mindless followers assumed I was personally responsible for the petition (which, yeah, I was) and started being openly rude to me...

I’d always assumed Beth and I would be friends forever. But then in middle of the eighth grade, the Goldbergs went through the World’s Nastiest Divorce.Beth went a little nuts.I don’t blame her. When her...

That’s the pathetic thing about high school. Everyone tries so hard to be something they aren’t. It’s gotten so I don’t know who I am, so how can I even try to be who I...

Apparently when it’s two people, it’s quirky and funny, but when it’s a person doing the same stuff on her own, it’s rebellious and antisocial.

Kissing was an extension of that, a celebration. A little party between us, amplifying our naive joy, our faith that the world was delighted to give us just what we wanted.

So here’s the deal: I speak up in class, I get sent to office. Megan speaks up in class, she’s a “strong, assertive model student.”I post a few flyers saying that the vending machines on...