Letting Them See Me

Tonight, I’ll be heading to a corporate outing where everyone else is director level or higher. In the past, I would’ve pulled down the mask I’ve worn my entire adult life, found something appropriately feminine, and been crawling out of my skin all night. In fact, that’s exactly what I was planning to do, right down to laughing off my best friend (one of the directors) commented that she’d do my makeup in the backseat of our regional manager’s car on the way there.

I came up with so many rea...