It was Friday, March 13, 1992, and Chad and I had 30 minutes to kill before Trey would clock out at Kroger. Next door lay Drakes Creek park, where I used to ride my blue Mongoose over the BMX track a few years prior. I looked at that chunk of hilly, curvy dirt and knew [...]
In Fall 1985, my elementary school sent us to Huntsville, Alabama to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Here’s Chad, the kid who sat next to me on the bus ride from Nashville: He also sat next to me on a high school field trip to Washington, D.C. in Spring 1992: He no longer poses [...]
I had just mowed our 1-acre yard on a late-April Saturday in 1987. Suddenly, I dropped my ice water. A blond-haired, blue-eyed 6th grader was pedaling her Schwinn bicycle by our house. I was pretty sure I recognized her from school–she was the new girl…Julie Scott? Yeah, that’s right…she’d just moved from Colorado. I wondered [...]
For the rest of my life, I will remember exactly where I was when I learned that no more Zima would be made. It was October 20; I was driving on I-24 West towards Nashville, passing Winchester, TN. I had to pull over and cry. I felt as though I’d learned my first love had [...]
This is a hard question for me to answer, as I wrestled in highschool like Andrew, got in trouble with the law a few times like Bender, participated in academic clubs like Brian, looked surprisingly pretty in makeup like Allison, and “never did it!” like Claire. Given a mandate to pick just one, however, I’d [...]
