I remember the night I encountered my great-grandmother’s secret, perched in a glass of cleaning solution on the shelf above the bathroom sink. I was perhaps six and it hadn’t occurred to me before that moment, that the teeth that I had always seen clinging to my Nana’s top and…

For the young women of Chrysalis; may you unfurl your complex and powerful wings without apology. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson My athletic 12-year-old niece tells me absently mid-air, looking down, “I hate…