B Rowlandson
Nov 4 · 10 min read

“Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.” -John Wayne

My first driving experience was the foundation on which a life-long phobia was built. As a child, I was forced to “practice” driving one cold December night, resulting in nearly totaling my mother’s car against a brick wall. I learned in that instant that driving was something to be feared. The confused, spinning feeling I experienced behind the wheel that night transferred onto all subsequent driving attempts…

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