Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

... family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.

Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any sort. The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Slowing down reminds you that the journey is supposed to be fun.