Girlness

Pawing through the pile of clothes on my floor for the right pants, shoes, sweater appropriately comfortable, sturdy, warm, I am struck with a heightened awareness of my girlness.

The adult Lynda does eventually reclaim her girlness from the control of others with help from a surrogate mother figure, an unlikely hero named Norabelle, a thirteen-year-old girl who rescues the adult Lynda […]