Life is an amazing journey. One of the aspects of life that always keeps it interesting is that you are never 100% sure where the journey is going to lead you. This has been true for me as I am sure it has been for you. In the last months, I have taken a brand-new step on my journey but to understand this step better I should probably give you some background.
I entered this world in the state Texas. But when I was about a year old, my parents decided to pack my two older sisters and myself up in their car and return to their home state of Iowa. I spent all my formative years in the same small town in northwest Iowa. After graduating from high school, I moved to the “big city” of Sioux City to attend college. During that year, I had a situation which cause me to get a little freaked out and that triggered a transfer of colleges at the end of the year. I was closer to home in Storm Lake. Following the closing of my college career, I accepted a management position with Target and was headed to Mason City, IA. For the first twenty-four years of my life, I mainly lived in Iowa.
Target transferred me to Lincoln, NE, so I have my first experience of living outside of Iowa which I can remember. l lived in Lincoln for the next three years during which I got married, had my first son, and changed jobs. While living in Lincoln, I decided to go back to school so that I could change careers. My family and I moved which meant we left Nebraska and returned to Iowa, this time to Dubuque. I received my Master’s degree after three years and time for another move. As fate would have it, this move landed me back in Nebraska but this time in the central part of the state. Nebraska was home for another three years before another move would take me to central Iowa but this time to the south. There I would stay for over fourteen years. I then decided to make some significant changes in life which included leaving my current career and location. But, I did not leave Iowa. This time I moved to eastern Iowa where I would stay until recently.
This brings you up to what this blog post is entitled, “A New Step.” The new step actually has led me to return to the place where I was born – Texas. With my new husband, I moved to Fort Worth so that he could accept a new position at one of the educational institutions. This new step has been filled with some trepidation, some worry, but also a feeling of a new adventure. I am learning a whole new part of the country. I have a new city to explore. I also have an opportunity to redefine myself and my life goals.
Over the next couple of days and weeks, I will be posting about this new step and the new
A Journey of Life 