
It always started with new shoes...
The trip to Sears was the signal to me that summer was coming to an end and it was time for school to start again. Like all kids, I had grown over the summer and those school shoes I abandoned at the beginning of summer just didn't fit. But that trip to Sears also signaled time to resurrect some of the old anxieties: what will school be like this year? what teachers will I have? Will I make new friends? It also brought on those other concerns that I didn't know how to handle.