Feigning Middle Class in Suburbia

Hello Faithful FMC Peeps!
I've started something new!  I am at a stage of life where it is time to embrace what I am passionate about, especially travel, writing, and photography.  I am so excited (and a little nervous) but so ready!
If you'd like to follow my new stuff, it will be on travel and events around Chicagoland and the world...  Check out the blog portion and/or follow me on my business Facebook Page....

In the National Gallery in DC - by Thomas Cole - the Voyage of Life
Processing unwanted change is such a surreal experience.  It is all so disconcerting and bizarre.  We all recognize that life can be brutal but when everything collides it knocks the wind out of you.  Lemony Snicket is a children's author that my daughter...

You know what happens when I am brave and transparent?!  I feel 1000 times better.  That isn't entirely true... At first I feel a huge wave of regret, and then a little sick and my head starts spinning like I just got off a roller coaster.  I go through...

Quote from  Lemony Snickett
This one is all about me, but sometimes that is the way it needs to be, not to mention that this is a profitless self run blog, so I can kind of do whatever:
The normal me loves adventure.  I am warm and confident and frugal and not afraid to fail...  I act like it is my job to find silver-linings and shimmers of light and beauty in the mundane.  I embrace the quirkiness of the world, accept people as they...