It sometimes feels as though life has passed me by and I wonder if other people feel that way too. Surely it can’t only be me. I don’t remember when the years started to speed up, but they did. Seasons tumbling into each other, days disappearing into weeks, weeks into months. I can’t seem to slow life down but I can’t keep up with it either. The markers that are so familiar to me: New Year, family birthdays, Halloween, Christmas, all come around too fast. No matter how hard I try to stay one step ahead I am always behind schedule in the story of my life. I feel old, even though I’m not, and I
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