Excavating Fossils — Digging Up the Girl I Used to Be

Time to get dirt on my hands

Photo by Trnava University on Unsplash

I always wanted to be an archeologist.

I pictured dusty me in my khaki shorts and sunburned cheeks on some roped-off site in Egypt or Pompeii with my scrapers and brushes, gently removing time from the relics buried below.