Probably a contact lenses issue.
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Walking on Glass by Alma Fullerton (HarperTeen) covers a delicate subject matter: What would you do if you really believed someone you love was better off dead? Would you help your loved one end his/her life?
Learn how one boy copes with these difficult questions through a collection of verse-style journal entries that are desperate and intense throughout.
The narrator of this book of poems is a high-schooler facing a tough call: His mother remains in a coma for months after failing to kill herself. Well, she didn’t fail alone—he walked in, found her, and stopped her. Now, he writes about everything from his guilt over wishing his mother had succeeded, to his exploits with his frighteningly cruel best friend, Jack. If he doesn’t do something, anything, to relieve this guilt, he may end up just like Jack.
The dreaded day is approaching - a day that will determine the fate of any young relationship- St. Valentine’s Olde Tyme Affection Appreciation Observatory Holdiay (that’s what you kids are calling it on the streets these days, right?). But, fret not old friend, your chum Shifty has your back! Take a peek at these gift ideas, and you’ll be on your way to a happy ending! (You can’t see it right now, but I’m winking suggestively!)
Kirsten, sweet Kirsten. So you’re forty, my dear. And … you’re … pregnant?
Wow, well, I was just as shocked as the rest of them. I thought she had terminal cancer for the whole episode. It seems like a lot of people in my life right now have been struggling with that awful stuff, and to be quite honest, I didn’t want my soon-to-be-gone semi-favorite show to have someone dying of cancer in the last four episodes.
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