My first crush was in Kindergarten. I liked a boy who was very mean to me.

One day he brought a toy into our Kindergarten class for “Show and Tell.” It was battery operated and it had five colored penguins on wheels that would climb stairs and when they reached the top they would rush down [...]

When I was in Jr. High, a new roller skating rink opened in our small town and it was a very big deal. We’d grown tired of bowling. We didn’t have a mini golf center. Going to the movies was okay, but you couldn’t really have a conversation with boys there or hang out and [...]

“Come on! Hurry! They stole my football.”
I was eleven years old, on a Saturday afternoon, when I showed up at Megan’s house and she was in an excited frenzy. I had just scaled the drainage ditch between our housing tracts, crossed through her back yard, and found her in the front driveway excitedly hollering at [...]

This is my love story. You can start here with the Introduction and then read chapter after chapter.