Why Can't I Just Get Along?

I'm a librarian who studied investigative journalism. But nobody likes a know-it-all.

"Well-behaved women rarely make history." -Eleanor Roosevelt.

When I was three years old, I had a tendency to go wherever I wanted. I would get up in the morning before anyone else arose and walk down to my friend Stevie’s house for breakfast. When I got tired of playing with my sister in the church nursery during my mother’s choir practice, I left the n…