As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.