My Story Archive:

“And then I realized— adventures are the best way to learn. Especially adventures that started out as FNTAKL and became a legend.”

“This time it wasn’t my mom’s crazy idea, it was my own. That’s right. The secret agent you all know and love got her own crazy idea to climb up to the top of the seven waterfalls that make up the end of the “grandest mile of scenery” in Colorado Springs.

Are you ready? This is going to be my coolest story yet. 

If you could re-live one moment in your life to change something, what would it be? 

To begin, three words. I. Conquered. Goliath. 

Everyone likes dolphins. Sharks are a different story. They're cool to look at, but the people who want to swim with them were dropped on their heads as babies.

Well, as of today I may not be a conquerer, even though I was two days ago. Before you get any ideas, let me just set one thing straight. My mother has some serious, hands-down, INSANE persuasion skills. 

We all have friends. Some were dropped on their heads as babies. Some, were clearly thrown into the air, bounced off of the ceiling fan, crashed through the window, back-handspringed across the lawn and landed neatly in second arabesque position. 

The best advice I've ever been given is a saying by Cherise Peter. "Life is like a roller coaster. You get on. Sometimes the hills are high, and sometimes they're low. Sometimes they twist and make you sick, sometimes they flip you upside down. But as soon as you get off, it doesn't matter if you got sick or you loved the ride, what matters is that you're alive, and thats way better than anything you've ever survived."

"I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyze me."

~Edmund Hilary (1919-2008)~

Picture this. Theres a teensy woodland fairy dragging a suitcase full of rocks through the forest's rough terrain to get to a river, where she can drown the suitcase in the magical water and watch it and all the ridiculously heavy rocks inside it disintegrate into a bazillion tiny pieces.