Aidan’s fourth grade class is wrapping up their Africa unit with a feast this Friday. Each child is supposed to bring a food prepared from an African recipe. She searched recipe websites, using “African food” as her guideline. After going back and fourth between several possibilities, she settled on beef-stuffed pastry rolls traditionally served when […]

Kimmie’s living room was purple. The swamp cooler kept the air cold. Here, with her mother in the next room and my mother a few blocks away, I could dance to the soundtrack from Grease. I pretended to know the lyrics as well as my friends, who could sing every note of “Totally Devoted to […]