I am a real person, working and living in a system where everything is measured and reduced to numbers.

I’m burned out, chronically ill, my house is a mess, and I’m tired. I’m tired of being in survival mode.

I love my family, my pets, and my home. I am veteran of the US Air Force. I served as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technician in the early 90’s when a woman EOD Tech was a rarity.

I am not afraid of hard work or perseverance.

I have been in the arena my whole life. Maybe courage is not always staying in the arena indefinitely. Maybe sometimes courage is recognizing when the arena has consumed too much of your humanity.

“It’s not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of great achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

EOMFD ~ Initial Success or Total Failure