Sometimes people think, "You don't get to have it all, you don't get to be happy, life's a struggle," but what if it's not?

Sometimes people think, "You don't get to have it all, you don't get to be happy, life's a struggle," but what if it's not?

I'm really close to my family. As I get older, it's like they're the only people I really talk to.

I'm strong and I can do things that scare me. I can drive in the snow even though it terrifies me. I'm doing it all alone, I don't have a boyfriend, it was like, "I can do this."

I'm 33, my generation, when I was young, we'd go out into the woods for the entire day and come back for dinner. I was definitely a kid of the '80s, who was out and about.

I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in high school we would go drink kegs in cornfields.

Because I can isolate and be a bit of a loner, [my ideal] is finding some sense of community where I'm one of many and where my skills are equally as important and valuable.