This Business of The Quickening (Or Quitting)

There are quickening moments in life, moments when you first feel the movement of something new. New love, the knee of your first child pushing against your wife’s belly, the early inklings (or doings) of a new career path–these bring the flutter of new life. In the quickening moments, folks are suckers for a cliché, saying things like, “this is the first day of the rest of my life.”

So, let’s go ahead and get this over with–this is the first day of the rest of my life.

I suppose my moment co...