Dear reader,

I turned 35 on Sunday! Oh my gosh. Halfway through my thirties already. How time flies.

This decade of my life got off to a very shaky start, but now that things have settled, it’s overall feeling much better than my twenties ever did.

My twenties were a time of working long hours, making do with less-than-ideal circumstances, and yearning for a better/different lifestyle. A typical day for me was up at 5:30 am to write, then off to my full-time office job, go to ...