How I see the world

Tall Girl at the Party

There’s a certain point where it doesn’t matter whether or not I wear heels. I’m tall. Chances are extremely high that I’ll be the tallest woman at the concert, party, club, store, gym, mall… you get the idea. The question then becomes, not “Should I wear heels?” but instead, “How much taller than everyone else […]

Stop Slouching and Stand Tall

My awareness of just how tall I was started in junior high, and with it came the need to slouch, hunch, and in general try to be shorter. I had always been the tallest girl in class, sometimes the tallest person in class, but in junior high I became more aware of it. Perhaps it was […]

Not Your Typical Tall Girl Sport

There are many sports to try but being tall, there is only one that everyone assumes that you play. In my senior year of college  I finally found my sport of choice, and it wasn’t basketball.  On a hot September day, my friend Mike and I walked across the UCSD campus with the list of […]