sailing away from the safe harbor.

I've gone back and forth on the whole idea of blogging for years. Sometimes I think I want to do it, then two seconds later (and usually after spending a day setting a new blog up), I decide don't. As I am an intensely private person, I've never been big on sharing my life or my thoughts with people outside my inner circle, something I blame partially on growing up in a small town --where everybody knows your business, often before you do. (Ironically enough, we are again living a small town life, albeit a different one, where no one knows us, and that has ended up being kind of lonely at times. Go figure.)

So, what made me decide to blog? To finally, really blog?

In two and a half months, I'm going to be thirty years old. All things considered, I've had a pretty great run of it so far, but. There are things that could be better. Things that I would like to do. 

Things that I would like to change. Need to change.

So, I'm starting here, with this blog. Putting myself a little more out into the world --stepping outside my comfort zone, so to speak-- and hopefully growing (and changing) in the process.

Here's to another thirty years...and more. Welcome to my journey.

“Twenty years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

 ~Mark Twain