Because just like being tailgated on the highway makes me go *precisely* the speed limit, someone telling me they don't think I should do X with my life or I ought to really conduct myself in Y fashion makes me even more determined to machete my way through the path I've chosen for myself.
Tim’s personality speaks clearly from 1985, defiantly intelligent, a little arrogant, and anti-authoritarian. As he is now.
lessons about how to be an adult filter through you when you're a parent, and you spend a lot of energy hoping that those lessons will stick, that they will carry something forward from those brief moments you have together.
These are the ephemera that deserve my attention, not the dust tumbleweeds in the hallway or smudges on the fridge.
That fire has given me energy to raise my children amid a family of tyrants and sycophants
Meg Currell 