I can’t believe I’m going to do this but here it goes- a quote from the movie Ice Age: Manfred: Sid, the tiger found a shortcutSid: (looking at the treacherous mountain) No thanks, I choose life. There it’s done. I actually quoted Ice Age. Please hold all judgements until forever. This quote plays in my

Remember in school when you were assigned a paper to write about your hero or role model? Lot’s of people picked Michael Jordan or their older sibling. I never knew who to pick. But now I do. Even when I was as a wannabe-rebel-making-mistakes-attitude-absorbed-teenager and sure that he was wrong about most things, my dad