Today's writing

The kids are all abuzz about their spring performance. They won’t tell me what it’s about, only that this is history. Europeans are big on their history. They laugh at Americans who think their country can compete. It’s on their lips, in their publications. Sitting in the English teachers’ office, the reluctant light shafting through the lace curtains, I find a student-geared newsletter that says it all. 

In America, a 50-year-old McDonald’s restaurant made the record books as the oldest of its kind. Americans across the country celebrated. 

Jesus Christ. No wonder they think we’re idiots.