KJ

Remember how Alice fell down the rabbit hole and all the extraordinary escapades and puzzling ordeals that followed her fall?

In August of 2005, I quit my job, pretty much without any sort of Plan B, which sure felt like tumbling down a rabbit hole and found myself having all sorts of extraordinary escapades and some really puzzling ordeals, too. The practical thing would have been to start sending out resumes pronto, but sometimes, you have to be a little impractical to make dreams come true. So instead, I found myself doing what I said I always wanted to do, which was to start my own artsy craftsy business, and to write for a living. And four years later, I'm still here, with my resume still sitting unupdated saved to a disk somewhere, still doing all I can to pull this off, because I don't want this to just be a dream. I don't want to wake up. There are days I'm "stressured", days I freak out, days I want to cry and pull my hair out -- both because I'm stressed/pressured and because I'm having an bad bad hair day because I didn't want to spend any extra money and trimmed my own bangs -- but I like it here in Wonderland and I want to stay.

So, if you see a white bunny running around, try following him for a while. The grand thing about life? You never know what's going to be at the bottom of that rabbit hole. It may be there just for you, and what you find when you stop falling just might be your biggest, best adventure yet.