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With conversational flourishes and on-the-mark descriptions, Megan Stielstra's essays evoke the richness of her everyday life and the memories that are never far away. Combining footnotes, electric sentences, and uproariously funny anecdotes, Stielstra shows us that maturity is demanding, but its rewards are a gift.

Table of Contents
  • Once, I Was Cool
  • Channel B
  • Totally Not Ethical
  • Under Your Feet They Go On Growing
  • Kick MS
  • It Seems Our Time Has Run Out, Dr. Jones
  • The Domino Effect
  • What I Did and Didn't Say
  • The Right Kind of Water
  • The Walls Would Be Rubble
  • My Daughter Can Read Just Fine
  • Juggle What?
  • Who Wants the Shot
  • Felt Like Something
  • A Third of Your Life
  • Those Who Were There
  • How To Say the Right Thing When There's No Right Thing To Say
  • I Bop
  • 82 Degrees
  • The OMG We Have To Write About This Look
  • We Are Fine
  • Dragons So Huge
  • Once I Was Cool
  • Nice
  • This is Scary and Here I Go
  • A Room of One's Own in the Middle of Everything

Once I Was Cool

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: 8/30/2021 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810143920, 978-0810143920
      ISBN10: 0810143925

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      With conversational flourishes and on-the-mark descriptions, Megan Stielstra's essays evoke the richness of her everyday life and the memories that are never far away. Combining footnotes, electric sentences, and uproariously funny anecdotes, Stielstra shows us that maturity is demanding, but its rewards are a gift.

      Table of Contents
      • Once, I Was Cool
      • Channel B
      • Totally Not Ethical
      • Under Your Feet They Go On Growing
      • Kick MS
      • It Seems Our Time Has Run Out, Dr. Jones
      • The Domino Effect
      • What I Did and Didn't Say
      • The Right Kind of Water
      • The Walls Would Be Rubble
      • My Daughter Can Read Just Fine
      • Juggle What?
      • Who Wants the Shot
      • Felt Like Something
      • A Third of Your Life
      • Those Who Were There
      • How To Say the Right Thing When There's No Right Thing To Say
      • I Bop
      • 82 Degrees
      • The OMG We Have To Write About This Look
      • We Are Fine
      • Dragons So Huge
      • Once I Was Cool
      • Nice
      • This is Scary and Here I Go
      • A Room of One's Own in the Middle of Everything

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