who the heck am i?

you would think that i would have my life figured out by now. after more than 50 years on this planet, being a responsible citizen, wife, mother, co-worker blah, blah, blah. but, i'm learning (much to my dismay) that life lessons don't care how old you are.

so to answer the question of who i am, well i'm not sure i know right now. but i sure am enjoying discovering myself. i'm doing things i never thought i'd ever get to do or even thought of doing in the first place.

like my recent trip to the pacific northwest. i'd only read about it in books and seen pictures in national geographic. i discovered after camping for almost three weeks in a teeny tiny tent, eating too many salami sandwiches, getting eaten alive by mosquitos, seeing real live deer, moose, raccoons and mysteriously scary rodent-things, meeting some really nice people and viewing nature in all her beauty that i have a lot to do and see yet. and that i'm looking forward to the journeys. of course, i'm conveniently forgetting waking up and finding a puddle of water under my sleeping mat, the giant cockroach-buggy thing in the bathroom stall in the middle of the night, and that really bad day when i thought seriously about taking the greyhound through a couple of States to get home.

i could say something pompous about life lessons and journeys.

when i figure out what that is - i'll let you know.