My Parents Told Us To Get Lost In The Snow Until My Phone Started Ringing

converts circumstance into character, that reads difficulty as deserving, that mistakes the hardness of a path for evidence that the person on it should not be there.

I told Jasmine not to drop the class. I told her we would fight it. The Student Parent Support Network began as a list of names and a shared pantry and a babysitting exchange, people helping continue reading …