No More Miss Nice Girl

On remembering to get a little mean.

One of the unspoken rules for growing up in suburbia is that you must play at least one team sport by the time you reach middle school. (This is likely true for most city kids as well, but alas, I wasn’t cool enough to grow up in a big metropolis). For me, that meant soccer from the age of 6 — or what most adults like to call “cluster ball” because you …