I am an introvert. I have known this for years, but before I read the word in an article, the only word I knew to describe it was shy. As a child, I barely ever answered questions in class. My 

I am chumming. I knew the night before, when the cramping and pain began, that it was coming. Actually, I knew even sooner, because I mark the dates in my mind and on my wall calendar. Still, there’s no way