Keeping A Culture: A Review of Thoroughness and Charm - Front Porch Republic

Keeping A Culture: A Review of Thoroughness and Charm - Front Porch Republic

In first grade, I had the misfortune of being the first left-handed student Mrs. Posey had ever taught. I sat in the front row by her desk “because you’re different,” she huffed. My five-year-old mind thought she was an ancient grump. She grumbled when she “had to” give me a pair of left-handed scissors. She grumbled when she corrected my pencil position. I felt her glare at the slant of my letters. I was plain scared of her, and I’m pretty sur…