I Let Her Run All Over Me
A couple of years ago, my attitude was akin to that of The Joker, the one played by the late Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight movie. Like this iteration of the Clown Prince of Crime, I was standing in the middle of the empty roadway — metaphorically, of course — staring down my adversary, silently daring her to pull the trigger.
Bring. Bring. My cell phone started vibrating in my pocket, precipitating the flow of an…