Chasing Dreams

I was originally planning to dedicate my last 2011 blog to the protestors here in America and around the world that have instigated regime change without the need for war, influenced the social and economic conversation by exposing the income disparity here in the US and demonstrated to the “powers that be” that the people are the real power when we work together. I wanted to touch on how the “Tea Party” has matured from protestors to political constituent on their way to perhaps becoming a Political Party separate from the Republicans that don’t seem to know how to fully assuage them. And of course I wanted to highlight how the Occupy Wall Street movement introduced the term 99% into our vernacular that has seemed to catch fire all over the globe. But TIME magazine beat me to the punch, so I’m going to write about something Time isn’t writing about yet… me. 2011 was truly a year of transition not just for politics but for me personally. It was a year for many firsts that I am...