I'd like to introduce you to my friend Avo. Avo is a seedling I cultivated 4 to 5 months ago from a delicious avocado I ate. I had this brilliant idea to see if I could grow an avocado tree from seed, so I did some research on the many ways to do it, and I chose the way that mimics what would occur naturally; I stuck the seed in dirt and watered. For months, I continued to water this seed in dirt, and it didn't look like anything was happening. I second-guessed the way I chos

Several years ago, I had a conversation with a friend about how I felt that my life had arranged itself in such a way, that I as forced to face myself and address the role I played in creating an internal mess of myself, and an external crisis (because divorce will make you think real hard about these things, ha!) It was 2012. Fresh from separation, I spent a lot of time alone in my bedroom of my apartment. I, along with my kids, recently moved out of the apartment that my th