…And These Three Things, I Learned From My Mother.

When I was a little girl, I would watch my mother put her knee to the steering wheel and drive as she used tweezers to shape her eyebrows — something she later taught me that saved me $10 every two weeks.

She was fascinating to me. The way she did it so effortlessly, the way her knee moved from left to right with ease, never knocking anything over or getting into any accidents…