Word: vomited
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...lobby of the building someone gave me a Nantucket Nectar and told me to vomit. I walked outside the building with the drink in my wastebasket. There was no one around. White everywhere. The four of us had nowhere to go. I couldn't remember where I was. I walked toward the water. Police directed everyone north. I asked a woman next to me, "Where are we going?" She said, "I don't know." She had no dust. She looked so steady. I followed her. This was the beginning of her long protection...
...took notice recently when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology paid a $6 million settlement to the family of a student who died of alcohol poisoning). And now, thanks to the AMA initiative, communities are beginning to get involved, too. They see tax dollars being spent on sanitation workers cleaning vomit off the streets, hospitals giving emergency care to scores of students after every fraternity rush, police officers investigating drinking-related cases of vandalism and sexual assault...
...Caroline insists that I share her bed. It's pediatric-sized, with a firm board at the end, so my legs can't hang over; I have to draw them up. For this reason and all the obvious ones, I get no sleep. Caroline sleeps in fits, waking to vomit occasionally (a usual aftershock of concussions), to tinkle, to cry for Mommy or for Piggie, her constant companion who, unfortunately, is at Grandma's, equally desolate. Caroline hugs the red Spinners bear as tightly as she can, but it is lacking as a substitute...
Roller coasters are supposed to scare us. They wrap our non-phobic, perfectly natural fears of heights, speed and being turned upside down 200 feet above the cotton-candy stand into one vomit-inducing 2-minute thrill ride - and then they set us back on the ground, pat us on the back, and tell us where the end of the line is so we can go again...
...Then strap the kids in and tell them to hang on and have fun. Chances are the worst thing that will happen is one of them will vomit on your shoes...