Lesa Howard

“Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold.”

“After that, I’d wanted to date, but I simply didn’t know how. It seemed to come natural to everyone else, pairing up and going out. And now, well, I felt like a nonparticipant, like there was a schedule to be followed and I was so far behind I’d never get caught up.”