My eight-year-old brother couldn't sleep. He had watched a scary movie, and its main character was invading his thoughts.
"Is Dracula here?" he asked.
"No, he's back home in Transylvania," I assured him.
"Maybe he's visiting!"
In order to distract him and help him get to sleep, I came up with an idea.
"Let's make a mixtape of songs that will keep Dracula from visiting us."
I serenaded my brother with tunes that sent Dracula to all sorts of locations. The bloodthirsty count sailed away to Key Largo. He visited "Aruba, Jamaica ..." and the other exotic locations in the...
Was that a smile?
Yes, it was! It was, in fact, the most beautiful smile I had ever seen.
We waited two years to see that smile, that recognition that from now on, everything would change. Not that everything would be perfect, but that we would be together.
We would move forward together, we would tackle life together, we would be a family together.
Infertility is no joke. When you already have one child, nobody gives you any sympathy when you can't give that child a brother or sister. But in your heart, that child is real. That child is...
I don't know how I got here. I don't know why someone has strapped me to a table and is trying to knock me out with drugs.
I feel my body relaxing. I don't want to relax. I have things to do. I have places to go. Most importantly, I have a message to send.
My only chance is to get the nurse on my side. I have to talk to him before I fall asleep.
"Listen, man. These people don't care about you. Do me a favor. Go to the Overlook Hotel tomorrow in Room 244 at 3 p.m....
Sally hesitated before entering the beauty salon. She had lost the bet, and it was time to go blonde.
Do blondes have more fun? Do gentlemen prefer blondes? She was about to find out.
When Sally emerged from the salon, she had long, straight, blonde hair. She discovered that most people didn't recognize her.
"Wow, the color of a person's hair is more important than I ever imagined," she thought.
She decided to take advantage of her new identity by trying new things.
She went to a different coffee shop. She attended a concert at a new nightclub. She even...
"Why did I have to dress up as Napoleon?" Billy thought as he entered the Halloween party.
His friends were dressed as modern characters like Bluey, The Minions, or even Scooby-Doo. He felt out of place, even though he was wearing a costume on Halloween.
Well, if he had to look like Napoleon, he decided to act like Napoleon. He cut the cake in half and took that half for himself. He also "conquered" the drink table by removing the iced tea and pouring the punch into a separate container.
When the teacher asked him why he was misbehaving, Billy...