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Blue & White- My Favorite Colors
How could something so innocent as your favorite color be marred by the trauma in your life? When I was younger I would have told you my favorite color was green. Secretly, I loved blue but that was a boy color and as a girl, I was to like pink. To me pink represented weakness, even at a young age I could see men who were demeaning to women, took advantage of them, or just lorded power over them. I did not want to be one of those women. I have always been a bit of a tomboy, looking back I wonder if it was a way to exhibit strength…
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Graduation Shoes
As often as I have been eligible to walk at graduation, I have only walked 3 times. My first was my eighth-grade graduation and I have no pictures of this day. I passed on my high school graduation as I dropped out my senior year and transferred into an adult program where I did not know anyone. There was too much drama in my life when I earned my two associate degrees and again passed on the opportunity. The stars did not align for me to attend my graduation for my bachelor’s degree either. After earning my bachelor’s degree I started adjunct teaching, while working at the college as a…
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