Nothing prepares you for the day when you realize you spent more than two decades training two entire humans to walk out the door confidently and successfully. Then they do. Three time zones away, and somehow that was the whole point.
Category: Family
Untethered: That’s the day you get fired by obligation and hired by curiosity.
My father is a retired Air Force pilot who once made supersonic flight look routine, and yet, he’s consistently undone by an episode of Little House on the Prairie. It turns out, real strength has nothing to prove.
For most of my life, what I did defined a large part of who I was. Without a job title, I had to figure out how to measure my value on my own terms—a slightly unsettling but ultimately freeing exercise.
Democracy is not static. It bends, it falters, it rebuilds. History shows that progress is rarely linear, and the road to justice, equity, and stability is littered with setbacks. But also, with remarkable recoveries. While democracy is fragile, it is never beyond repair.
I didn’t grow up attending protests, but I did grow up with a strong sense of patriotism and a pride in a country branded as “the land of the free and the home of the brave”.