Post Birthday Challenges, Continued

Tonight I'm making some space in my evening for reflection. The months since my birthday have been incredibly rich, and I have much to reflect on. As I look back, I realize how many new experiences, challenges, and adventures I've embarked on, even if I didn't treat them all as Birthday Exercises. They've come in the form of hard conversations, new recipes, ferry rides, prayers, and attempts to enjoy almond, rice, quinoa, and flax milk.  They've provided plenty of material for blog posts to come [but spoiler alert: there's no milk like milk]. It's been fruitful, fun, grace-filled, challenging, and awesome to be 30.

 I hope to share many of those challenges with you, but first, I'll write about the challenges that awaited me on the other side of the Atlantic ...