That’s the ticket.  To the concert, the baseball game, to your life. The one thing you undeniably believe will make you happy, the answer to all that ails you, the thing that if you accomplish will make you feel whole.  I know a lot of people that hold onto the dreams they’ve had since they were 18, or 21, or since they knew what they were destined to do.  The problem with that theory is that we grow and change and the things that we wanted when we were 18, or 21, or last wee

Continuation from “The Wedding” (part 1) If done with the best of intentions, if done in honesty and kindness commitment felt like something warm, it felt like home. If done with someone you love wholeheartedly, with the knowledge that it won’t always be easy but you will always have the other person by your side, and if done with the knowledge that it will be work that you will graciously put in… I think marriage seems glorious. When it comes, I thought to myself, I welcome

Do you know how I learned to swim? My father pushed me in the pool; I flailed and squirmed and then just like that, I swam. But for an entire 10 seconds I thought I was going to die. This may sound cruel from the outside in, but if no one had pushed me to question what my limitations are are maybe I would have never found out, maybe I would have taken years to learn to swim, maybe I would have been too scared to go into the deep end. When you’re pushed in, water to your ears