Acknowledging Anna
“Anna! I don’t know why you won’t listen to my advice. I am telling you this for your own good. You need to know how to advocate for yourself!” I was getting on her for something inconsequential. Telling her she should do this, she should do that – reciting by heart the common refrain heard around the world in households between mothers and teenage daughters. In response, she picked up the bullet journal she was artfully drawing in as we had been chatting and walked out of the room. I had just squandered a rare moment when she had sought
