Post-It Dreams

It was 2008 when everything changed. Rather, it was 2008 when I started to change everything.

By any stretch of the imagination, I had failed to fulfill my potential. That is how my mother put it, often. I just never seemed able to get it right. I knew the right things to do — go to school, get a job, get married, buy a house — but I struggled with the right sequence, the right type, the right timing. I bought the house at the wrong time after attending the wrong school at the right time and marrying the right man for another kind of woman.