I was somewhere over the Pacific, hurtling through time. Next to me, my boyfriend sat coughing quietly into the crusted remains of what once was a tissue. Across the aisle from me, a girl with braces and a faded blue 4-H club t-shirt kept glancing in our direction. “That 4-H bitch is going to rat [...]
Woke up in the middle of the night last night with a pretty nasty case of sore throat. Ordinarily this would just be a minor annoyance, except for two things: 1) I have imminent plans to trek up to Baltimore to visit my new niece for the first time, and have been looking forward to [...]
So my coworker who yammers about her kids all the time (no matter if it is appropriate to the subject or not), today talked about how she thought one of her tots had the flu. Her kids are always coming down with something or other every week, it seems. Now I know kids get sick [...]
