celebration against entropy

In fourth grade, I had a friend named John who meandered through the hallways of our school with an aid always following him. He was lanky, a little awkward, and had a mushroom cut to tame his dirty blonde hair. I first met John because he joined my class one day a week and sat next to me. Over time, I talked to him and noticed that he would ask me the same question multiple times in a conversation: “Do you like soup? What’s your favorite kind of soup? I like chicken noodle.”

Puberty: the bane of parents’ lives. Just when they think they have this whole parenting business down, adolescence rears its ugly head. Hormones rule the world of puberty, changing a person from an innocent little child into a full-grown teen making their way through the perils of adulthood. While they get a bad reputation for their adverse effects on emotions, hormones help humans and animals alike mature. It is known that hormones are necessary to produce key changes in p