This is What I Do

I’ve never been a fan of convention.

It’s not that I’m intentionally trying to throw myself off the well-worn path: It’s more that I find growth and happiness in the ditch alongside the trail, or in the woods away from the guideposts that will ostensibly tell me how to get where I’m going. I know I’ll get where I need to be, and following such markers increases the chance that I’ll end up at a destination, but not my destination.

This mode of operation has led me from challenge to challenge, ne...