How to Know That You Have Reached “That Age”

The day you celebrate how long you’ve had a mom… or something like that. I saw mine. And my sister – also a mom. And my Aunt Mary – a surrogate mom. And a lady that I haven’t seen since I was a teenager – a mom, but not related to me at all in…

Nearly twenty years old, everybody dressed in late 80’s fashions, an overly dramatic happy ending, and Lean on Me still gives me goosebumps every time I see it. When Mr. Clark gives Sams the crack speech, when he tells Kid Ray he’ll be dead in a year, when the boys in the bathroom (which would…