Embracing the unexpected paths our lives take

I did not expect the life I am living—it was not the plan. At all. That’s the general feeling that I have when I look at the direction my adult life has taken. Yet, here I am.

The vision I had for my life

When I was a teen, I wanted to be a storyteller, writing and drawing comic books.1 I was accepted as a student at a private school specializing in training artists for the field of comics. I wrote and drew constantly. In fact, my first published work is actually in an independently publ...