Trust is a... very funny thing, isn’t it?
People gain your trust,
and people also break, lose your trust.
It’s not fair that we all should have to vie for people we can trust all the time
Afraid that they will break it.
I know people who used to be so trusting.  The kind of people who would get in a stranger’s car if they had candy.
I was never like that. Even now, I’d say there only about 2,...

1. What was the weirdest thing you ever did as a child?
    When I was a child, I always loved watching commercials. I saw this one from National Geographic or something, about nocturnal and diurnal. I walked into the room my parents were in and said, "Are you diurnal?" They were seriously weirded out.
2. Which bird in the area that you live in do you hate the most?
    That one that made obnoxious tweeting noises...

    "Raise your hand if you have ever felt badly about yourself," the instructor says.
    My first instinct is to shoot my hand into the air faster than a rocket and wave it around madly like a first grader would, just to prove that I really mean it. But I don't. I look around the room to see if anyone else would do it first. About three-quarters of the room raise their hands. I inch mine up, then change my mind...

Trick or treat...

    "Hey mom, come on!! We have to leave now so we can get all the good candy!"
    "Honey, it's raining pretty hard. It could be dangerous... maybe we should skip this year," I reply uneasily.
    "No, no, no!!" Clarity wails, "We HAVE to go! Come on mom, we have to! Plus, what's the harm? We walk around until it starts getting dark, then we go back home. It will be completely...