I know we’re not supposed to say so, but I never liked that kid.
He is my son’s age and lives in our neighborhood. And he wants to play. That alone was enough to win Devin over.
I’m not as easy to please.
He lacked the manners that you’d expect of an 8 year old. [...]

In my younger years, I was a judgmental bitch.
You could easily measure the starkness of my own black and white morality against my mother’s rather colorful “perception is reality” view of life. As she tried to explain to me why this wayward friend and that misguided castoff was joining us for the holidays and [...]