By Hannah Sweet When we are little, we are taught that there is danger among strangers, or stranger danger as it’s most commonly referred to. It’s an instinct that is nearly bred into us as children, from the adults in our lives claiming that “anyone could have taken you” to the fairy tales of old which used imagery and metaphor to illustrate these claims in ways that would instill a sense of fear in the unknown. However, my childhood was not entirely like this. As a child of

By Hannah Sweet What are you afraid of? Perhaps you're afraid of water, heights, clowns, or perhaps you're afraid of the dentist or babies. My father is afraid of water, so he doesn't swim and my mother of heights, so she avoids them. People are afraid of lots of things, but not me. I'm fearless. Growing up I was often in more trouble than out of it. I wasn't a bad child, I was just not afraid of anything, so I would often try things without working it out to the end because