I wanted to work at NASA when I grew up. I also wanted to be an actress. I wanted to be rich and never have to worry about money. I left for college to be a math major because my math teacher in high school told me I’d never make it. One of my peers in class told me I should stick to punching numbers in a calculator because that’s what I do best.

The more criticisms I heard, the more I believed them. Why try when I believed I couldn’t. So, I set out on a fight, but it was against myself, and it lasted 30 years. Drinking turned up the volume of that negative self-talk, and I stuck with doing things that I was good at already. I stopped reaching up and started digging down.

I didn’t end up at NASA, and I’m not an actress, although I exceed in being dramatic. I’m not rich, but I still tell my kids what I’m going to do when I am. 😂 I don’t regret the past, nor wish to shut the door on it, because without everything happening just as it did, I wouldn’t be right where I am. After all, it could ‘a me been me stranded in space for five months.

My obsession with alcohol used to speak to me every day. Now, gratitude has taken its place.

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