A Second Glance

Thoughts prior to posting:
After reading the introduction to “A Second Glance”, I was thinking, “NOPE! Looks like I’m not sharing.”

When I was five years-old, my grandma and I moved to her childhood home in Columbia, MO. Her father, my

I had the very first Barbie ever made – black & white striped bathing suit, plastic hair. She had

Appearance was the perfect distraction.
It shaped who other people thought I was. It was more malleable than anything else Logan.

I have always wanted to be a person that people say is pretty and not a person that people say

When I was in middle school, I remember sitting in class one day when a girl pointed at my bare

When I told Tiffany I wanted to go get in a tanning bed she looked at me crazier than when

Tina Fey told a little story in an interview once about how her grandmother was proud of her large nose,

I can’t say that I remember the very first time I was aware of my appearance, but one of my