Rebooting a Love Affair

| February 14, 2010 | 5 Comments

How very fitting that I should be submitting my February risk on Valentine’s Day, for the risk I am taking now is in returning to a relationship that ended in 2008.  And not just any ending, I might add, but a spectacular flame-out, the details of which I am too embarrassed to describe here except [...]

I Disagree

| February 11, 2010 | 5 Comments

I wasn’t on the debate club in high school.  I was the one in the family who watched as my two big sisters argued with my Dad about current events.  I remember vividly their discussions at the dinner table about the Vietnam War, Capitol Punishment (why do people kill people, who kill people to show [...]

Just Showing Up

| November 15, 2009 | 2 Comments

A good friend of mine once told me that most people get a quart container to hold the content of their lives. She said that I, however, had a gallon container, and it still managed to overflow. My life has been full of risks. I have followed my passions, Making it through my childhood was [...]