INEVITABLE MILESTONES

I spent the beginning of 2006 in a hotel room in downtown San Francisco with Dr. J....Snoring. No nookie. No champagne. No fireworks. I'll save the rest for another post.

The next afternoon at brunch, we started the usual clean slate conversation. Most of you blogknow me by now and can easily figure out that I don't do new year resolutions. I focus on the milestones: The markers in our life that signifies a noteworthy event.

Some milestones are unexpected. Being re-located to another state for work. Family death, house fire, finding out your mate doesn't love you anymore, etc...Most of those were negative unexpected milestones. There are positive unexpected ones though. I'm in a funky mood, so I can't think of any right now.

Then there's the inevitable milestones. The ones you can spot a mile away, looming around the corner, peeping at you just waiting to drop that stone down on the road of life, ensuring that you never forget it. I have some inevitable milestones this year: I turn 30. The next victim will be #25 on my "list". My ass will spread. My nipples will start pointing to the ground.

We'll all have to face milestones this year. positive, negative, expected, unexpected. Learning from them and moving on is the only way we can avoid them from becoming roadblocks.

I'm in an Oprah state of mind.