By: Madeline

     "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." -Winnie the Pooh      How is it that a bear of very little brain can sum up in one sentence my thoughts the past few weeks? Never underestimate stuffed animals and the wisdom they possess.       And it's true, this quote has been on my mind lately. I've had a fairly... Unusual... Summer. We had two deaths in the family, I experienced hiking a mountain on a broken hip, and all this while spending two months away from my Papa. Having to leave your home suddenly is just the cherry on top.       For those of you wondering, no we are NOT SKIPPING OUR RETURN TRIP TO AVOID EBOLA. That is the farthest thing from my mind right now, because if there was any way I was fit to travel, I'd be back home right now. And that's what it is to me– Home. I've lived there ten years, I grew up there, some of the most important things to me and important people are there. I can understand the peopl

     Everyone has their faults, and maybe mine will be of indefinite suggestion. It's the case with plenty of first children, and even more with female firstborns. I have plenty of friends who roll their eyes, same as me, when someone jokingly rebukes their herding of younger siblings. It's not a big deal. It's an occupational hazard. But if we stop and think about this, we have to remember something commonplace yet forgotten: Anything can be bad in indecent amounts.       Maybe it's just my nit-pickiness about words, but when we examine the definition of 'bossy', we might find a slightly different idea than what is commonly expressed. BOSSY: adj. fond of giving people orders; domineering. If you ask most people tagged as 'bossy', they're not going to stop and say "Oh, yeah, I take great joy in distributing commands. That's why I do it." It's more of an idea of being helpful. Synonyms of bossy in a thesaurus are as follows: pushy,