#the awkward phase

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If you're awkward and you know it... read this book!

If you're awkward and you know it... read this book! @clairelinic @TylerMTG @skyhorsepub

Okay, hands up – who went through an awkward phase at some point in their young lives? Come on, you’re among friends here. Here, you want proof of an awkward phase? Fine, I’ll show you mine. I give you 1985. Paisley jeans, ladies and gentlemen. That right there is a teen who didn’t know what the hell she was doing, but damn, she really wanted to. I knew what I liked (clearly, Duran Duran and…

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[iwantaboxernamedmichaelangelo]

I hope to god no one ever sees my Facebook page... its just filled with awkward pictures of me when i was 12 and had braces and didn't know how to even how to put my hair up into a decent ponytail...

*shudders*

[theawkwardphase]

We love seeing pictures of folk’s copies of The Awkward Phase! Keep ‘em coming!!!

xoxox

[euripidesredux]

So--one of the coolest things about working for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is the number of interesting projects that have come out of people meeting there.  Our Fair City is one of them.  The Awkward Phase is another.

Claire and Tyler solicited, edited, and selected some of the most  awkward stories from our youths and compiled them in this book---now a real, tangible object from Skyhorse Publishing.  Taken together, it becomes something way better than "cringing at what we used to do"---it's a celebration of doing things passionately and without irony or reservation--no matter what it looks like 20 years later.

Anyway---in it I (and a lot of really funny and interesting people) share stories about their Awkward Phase.  You should probably check it out. 

Preorder the Awkward Phase

[theawkwardphase]

Craft Queen. Life Queen.

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The Awkward Phase || Sawyer and Pete

The best thing about your best friends playing lacrosse while you did drama club was that practice and rehearsal let out at the same time so you could all walk home together. The arrangement was perfect for Arcadia's own golden trio: Sawyer, Kyle, and Pete. They had been friends for years and they were almost always found together or in some variation of the group. Not to say the trio didn't have friends outside each other, they all did, but these three really were just the best of friends. Something clicked with the three of them and nothing was easier than spending time with people who truly understood you.

On this particular, the trio was down to two. Kyle had to skip practice to help out around the store. So it was just Sawyer and Pete that day. Rehearsal had let out early and it was a nice day; Sawyer took full advantage and waited outside the school's main doors for her friend, reading a book in the grass. She heard the doors open and smiled when she caught sight of him. "How was practice?" She asked, closing her book and slipping it back into her bag.

[yellowjacketshmellowjacket]

I just realized sophomore year is going to be considered my chubby year