Tag: role models

  • Who You Were

    I can’t even begin to tell you how happy I am that I’m not who I was as a teenager. Sure, I have many things in common with that girl, but frankly I don’t think I’d want to be stuck on an elevator with her. She was so dramatic it exhausts me to think about…

  • “Whine, whine, whine!”

    I can still hear my stepfather’s voice in my head, clear as a bell. Whenever I got upset about something when I was little, that’s what he’d say. It would infuriate me. I didn’t have the words to express it at the time, but what it said to me was, “I don’t care about your…