TIME OUT I am a good at listening, a skill I mastered by the time I was an adolescent. During my wonder years, my father would often admonish me for [...]

I was always the shortest. The most petite version in the classroom, in the home, and amongst my peers. In the second grade, I distinctly remember being taunted because of [...]

The mirrored reflection sometimes has its payoffs.  As I stared at my face in the glass in front of me, I enjoyed my view. The right shade of red adorned [...]