If I could go back 25 years, and talk to the naïve 14-year-old who was setting foot into the big leagues of high school, I would tell that smart, athletic, ambitious, excited little girl to stop trying to be normal. I’d tell her that normal is just a word we use for comfortable. I don’t…
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To My Daughter and Her Friends as the Final Year of High School Begins
Lazy days of summer are quickly moving towards the inevitable first days of school. The countdown is on as the last “first day of high school” approaches for my daughter. Like most mamas with a child ready to fly out into the world, this has me reeling. We all know the time goes too fast,…