Pride Cometh Before the Fall

I am fiercely independent....to a fault. I rarely ask for help - and when I do, it takes me weeks to form the question. I have always claimed that I am NOT every woman - or a superwoman for that fact - but my behaviors have always suggested otherwise.

Once, when I was as empty as a pocket, I spent and entire winter wearing a pair of sneakers with holes in the soles. I tried my best to fight back the biting cold, snow and ice of the NYC streets, with heavy socks and slabs of cardboard. Years, l...