Is that what those were?” Gerry blithely replied.

We wanted more than anything else in the world to be normal, but we failed.” The 1960’s and 1970’s were very strange times, but Mandy missed it all, she missed the days when Super-8 was...

I just can’t wait to get out of Sweet Valley,’ Jessica explained. ‘I feel like I’ve been dancing with the same ten cute guys my whole life.

Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers’ laps. (The Pinata-Maker’s Daughter)

The city was lovely. There could be no place in the world to which he belonged so completely.That was why he’d always dreamed of leaving, and why he’d always been so afraid to go.

…as if in rebellion, certain emotions become amplified at the exact moments when you are expected not to feel them at all.

It was a time before Facebook and Instagram and texting. I imagine it must be easier now, for college students. Home must not feel so far away anymore. But how do you cut the apron...

When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You’ll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told...

A complex world of intrigues and power play among couples hascombined to deny young people the love and attention they trulydeserve, more and more teenagers are leaving home to peer up withbad influence which eventually...

There is a sense of danger in leaving what you know, even if what you know isn’t much. These mill towns with their narrow lanes and often narrow minds were all I really knew and...

Home was truly the best place he could possibly be, but, alas, was not an available option.

Now go. Leaving quickly is the best thing you can do. Don’t think about it, don’t look back, and don’t think that what’s behind you is better than what’s in front because it’s not. Not...

But hard as it is. It can’t be stopped. Can’t be sidestepped. No matter how much we want to or how fearful the future looks, we can’t stay frozen in place. You can go forward...