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.
How do you go about forging ahead without these people you trusted and revered?
I still have some summer to spend, but I'm looking back at what a dreamy time it's been.
I'm looking forward to being a student again.
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.
Meg Currell 