I love stories.  I am interested in the stories I have lived, and in the commonality we share as humans. Now I’ve written these stories down as a collection of essays. This book is a memoir-ish. A tell-most. How reaching for the dream is easily more interesting, expansive, sad and funny, than the dream itself coming true.

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