How To Keep A Journal In The Third Grade

When you order the journal from the Scholastic book order, don’t tell Mom. Do it independently and quietly. Don’t leave a trail. Pay in cash. (or, in my case, dollar bills and pennies.)

Synesthesia Confessions

I have favorite songs that taste like hot, oozing lasagna, and I want to be a poet, but I also want to be a teacher, and a mathematician, and an engineer, and someone else’s lasagna, someday.