I have embarked on a very strange journey this month; it is not something I planned, it was a spur of the moment decision made with little to no thought. If you know me well, you know this is an odd thing. I am a bit of a control freak (yes, I said it). I like to think things through… thoroughly. Control freak like, wake up at three in the morning and mull over something for hours while the clock slowly ticks my potential sleep time away type of control freak. I don’t ‘take the plunge’ easily. Yet, here I read more…

Picture it, Lord Baden Powell Elementary School library, sometime in the late 1980s, I am standing on a make shift stage, it is my first and last spelling bee. I remember I had convinced myself that I could win that thing, take home the big spelling prize. I am not sure where that false hope came from, I have never been a good speller, and my eight-year-old self was no different. I was eliminated after my second word. The word was jewelry and, considering auto correct just fixed my spelling of jewelry (my version is jewellery), it is clear I read more…