For Three Years I Quietly Ate Lunch Alone During High School, And Twenty Years Later A Single Phone Call Reshaped My Career Coaching Path

fluorescent lights, and the steady tension that traveled with me from class to class. There was one classmate, Rebecca, whose presence I always sensed long before she arrived.

She had a confident style, a sharp sense of humor, and a habit of making other students the subject of her attention in ways that did not always feel kind. I was one of those continue reading …