Childhood Love Potions
When I was 10 years old, there was a girl in my class I had a huge crush on. Every day my imagination would run wild, dreaming of scenarios where my true feelings could be made known to her, without the other students knowing. Already painfully shy, I didn’t want to invite extra attention, teasing […]
The Beauty of a Thick Skin
THERE WAS a time in my life when I was extremely sensitive. Around the time a pigtailed Britney Spears burst onto the scene with her ‘Pedo-Pop’ video, I began to pay closer attention to the opposite sex. I lacked self-confidence in my mid teens like many others in that age group, but at teeny bopper discos […]