Adventure

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost,
to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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I have an amazing life. I get to write and read a lot.  I get to interact with students - who are the best.  I get to interact with people who care about students - also awesome.

I got to see a giant rubber duck.  I know how to juggle (a little).  I know how to make a really good hard boiled egg.  I know how to fix vacuum cleaners.  I know how to make a giant fire out of a smaller, pre-existing fire.

I get to have amazing adventures (real and imagined).

In fact, most of my real adventures get imagined in new ways when I recall or retell them.  I like that.  Leslie does not always like it because sometimes I alter the dialogue we have on those adventures.  I consider it creative memory.  She sometimes considers it misrepresentation.  I think she just doesn't appreciate it when I give myself all the good lines - regardless of the fact that she might have originally said some of them.