Over The Last 10 Years,

When My Mother Took Her Turn To Sit In A Gown At Her Graduation, She Thought She Only Had Two Career Options: Nursing And Teaching. She Raised Me And My Sister To Believe That We Could Do Anything, And We Believed Her.

What I Tell Everyone, And I Really Do For Myself Is, I Have A Long-run Dream, Which Is I Want To Work On Stuff That I Think Matters.

Two Things That I Think Matter Are Gratitude And Joy.

Grief Comes And Goes, It Ebbs And Flows. I Think One Of The Lessons Of This For Me Is That There's No One Way To Grieve. Everyone Does It In Their Own Way, In Their Own Time, And We All Process Life And Its Challenges And Its Ups And Downs As They Come.

I Feel Really Grateful To The People Who Encouraged Me And Helped Me Develop. Nobody Can Succeed On Their Own.