First off, three reasons not to take up smoking: Smoking isn’t cool anymore. Smoking is expensive. Smoking could kill you. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems pretty obvious that smoking is a bad idea….

I liked Jimmy. He was the older kid who lived behind our apartment. I didn’t know where he lived exactly because I wasn’t allowed outside the courtyard in front of our porch. He visited once…

Dean Jones is supposedly retired. He’s one of those cool people, though, who won’t ever really retire. He was in the military for a little while and then worked as a photographer and teacher through…