Choose your own adventure
When my kids were little they used to read the Chose Your Own Adventure books, also know as Gamebook . After reading a few pages, they'd have to make a choice. The choice involved picking which page to go to next. Once that choice was made, the story was altered. I've often thought life was like that. Every so often you have to chose something. Once you make the choice, it changes your life forever. In life, unlike the book, you can't go back and alter your choice. I can think of so many pivotal moments of choice, as well as, minor ones. The minor ones sometimes turned out to be pivotal. With all the talk of Brooklyn Norwegians and my childhood, it has made me wonder about a lot of the choices. This morning my husband and I were talking about why I didn't go with my father to Norway when I was in the 9th grade. I've regretted that decision a million times. It was primarily their decision, I was only 14. However, I did...