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Fall vs Fail: The Difference Is in the “I”

I have never really been accident prone.

Childhood circa 1970′s-1980′s: no broken bones and only one serious laceration (forget the stitches, this one was life-threatening.)

Then this year happened. In the last few months I have had three falls, two of them MAJOR. The first happened while I was running with my beloved running team at 5 am. I was going faster than my normal pace and it was dark. Running fast in the dark was outside my comfort zone. My toe caught an uneven brick and down I we...

Every Book Starts With a Story

When I was in 4th grade, I got a D in math. I felt like a failure. To me, math knowledge equated with smarts. And, naturally smarts equated with success. At 9 years old, I was doomed to a life without success.

Three years later my seventh grade English teacher read one of my essays to the class. She cried a little at one part. At 12 years old, I knew I was destined to write a book.

I spent my life thinking about this yet unwritten book until three decades later when I figured something out;...

The Day I Almost Died

When I was fourteen, I sat in the back of a school bus frantically trying to hide the fact that I was wearing the same cotton pantsuit for the third time that week. I felt as though everyone on that bus was laughing at me. I know now that they weren’t but my perspective was a hot mess. I felt like an outsider, a failure, a giant loser. I was not pretty or funny. I was not talented in any way. I was “just” smart.

I didn’t want to be smart. I wanted to be pretty. I wanted to be funny. I wanted...