Something I remember from yesterday is an old-fashioned pressure cooker, its handle clasped in my mother’s hands. Our lives often resemble that cooker, the pressure building and the whistle about to blow.
I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane! I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to go skydiving, so, I finally took the parachute by the straps and made it happen.
The average American household has $98,315 in debt. If you remove all of the people who are debt-free, the average household with debt has $132,086 in debt (Nerd Wallet).
As I look back over the summer (a statement I should not have to make until September, but school starts ridiculously early this year), I am struck by how far I have come in the past 12 months.