Overheard at West End Bakery, West Asheville, NC

Players: two boys around 6th grade. One is chubby with shaggy brown hair, the other is a rail with dark black hair. They discuss politics like seventy-year old men on the Upper East Side.

Later, chubby turns to rail and says, "You have to admit, I'm pretty good at math. I don't brag, but I am the best in my class."

Rail responds, "I guess so, but the girls like me better."

Dear Diary

Throughout my middle school to college years, I wrote in a diary about once a year. Whether I wrote because of a transition or a new year's resolution, I'd average about ten pages a year... written on one day.

After reading several quality blogs and some more disappointing ones, I vow to try to write more often. It beats using my unicorn embossed journal.