While not quite Rodney Dangerfield, I found a program, bought a Trapper Keeper, and I’m heading back school.

I graduated college in 1998 at the age of twenty-two. Not only had I earned a degree, but I also left school with my (one day to be) adopted son and first born. By 30, I was married, already several years into a mortgage, and my final of 4 kids was born. He’s starting his freshmen year, his sister is a junior, and the oldest 2 are grown.

Like Luke Skywalker heading back to Dagobha because he has “a promise to keep to an old friend”…….I’m keeping the promise to myself that one day I would go back to school.

I’ve had a nice go at marriage, crazy divorce, over 25 year career in something I’m passionate about, been published a few times, found some regional success as a stand-up comedian, helped pass some legislation, swam with sharks, seen a couple of my favorite bands from the front role, watched my kids grow, and my daughter is about to release her first album….. her success is the continuation of a dream similar one I had early life in at her age. I’m a bit jealous, but much more so proud, that that dream lives on in her.

So, still in a pair of Doc Martens, with most of my hair but now with streaks of wisdom throughout, I head to the classroom for a Master’s in Innovation knowing there is more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and I’m closer to fine.