"Failure is only postponed success". That is what I told myself, many times over. I had waited so long for this moment, trained for this moment. It had been three years since I began my journey, and for much of three ye…

I hate airports... It is when they take me away from the people I love. They do this to me all the time, exchanging one place for another, and I am torn apart by it all. Part of me stays, another part must go on. But…

"If you go against the grain you will get splinters, are you prepared to deal with splinters?" Something I came across in my journal today. It was a thought that framed itself in my mind nearly a year ago and became an…