I’m in my 40s now and I was sitting and reflecting on how hard my twenties and even my thirties was. Don’t get me wrong — I also really enjoyed myself. I moved to Hawai’i for surfing and lived on the famous North Shore and just fell in love with the beauty there. I got to work in the feminist activist world in NYC. Lots of cool things.

I tried soo many things in my twenties. Some good; some not so good. But I would never have learned from the not-so-good things if I hadn’t tried them. It’s just not quite the same when some adult tells you — “I don’t think that’s a good idea.” Oh, OK then.
So I tried things and that was good. I loved and lost. I moved from Boston to Hawai’i. From Hawai’i to New York City. I waitressed; I freelanced; I worked corporate.