Need a Path to Prosperity? Try Cutting Through the Kitchen

As the new hit movie, Inside Out, so powerfully illustrates, being a kid is tough. You have all these emotions, you don't know what to do with them and that's even before puberty kicks in and your hormones go beserk. As I describe in my new young adult memoir, Make It Messy, when I was a fourteen-year-old kid growing up in Sweden, I didn't know how to answer the dozens of questions that were swirling in my head. My adoptive father was a Phd, but I was not academically inclined. My parents were a...