19. Journal

To start this off, I can't believe I'm blogging.

Now that I'm here, I'm trying to think of something witty to say. Then it dawns on me that only family will be reading this anyway, so why bother. Ha!

So let's just cut to the chase.

My oldest son turned 10 years old today. From first glance I am a veteran dad and a husband of at least 11 years. The truth is much more complicated than that.

"The grass looks greener on the other side" is cliche but true. The elevator speech of my life is that I met my wife at a seminar, English is our first language, and we are happily married with 3 children. The full story, I'd be lucky if someone sat through it.

My personal life story is even more complicated.

Let's just stay simple, for your sake and mine.

I am a lucky man to be where I am, to have obtained my teenage dream--being married to a dark, wild and free woman, and making a family together--though certainly not in the way I had thought.

I'm chasing another dream now. I want to be a writer.