Posts Tagged as ‘Graduation’

May 8, 2008

The Salad Bar of Life

“Have I told you my story?” my mother asks me as we walk from Jason’s Deli to her white spaceship-like minivan.
Her voice is soft and excited and shy. I am my mother’s youngest daughter. I am graduating college in two weeks. She will cry. She will say, My baby is grown now.
When I graduated from [...]

April 8, 2008

Second Guessing

Monday night, I sit and I stare. I stare at the wall, I stare into the air, I stare at people who don’t know why I am blankly searching their eyes for some kind of answer.
As I stare, I think about my pending life — the one that awaits me after May 16. And when [...]