entering the social media world by reviewing the past

This has taken me awhile to get to - but I now have a blog! In fact, I have two. This blog is more personal and the other one - Kids Creating Art - is for a social venture I am working on - but first, I need to bring you up to date since I keep getting asked what my plans are after I graduate. Before I can answer that question, however, I need to tell you where I have been so you'll understand where I am at and then if you choose, you can continue the journey with me as I press forward.

Three years ago I felt strongly that I needed to return to BYU and finish the degree I had started 30 years earlier. I was accepted back as a full-time student with the plan to take 18 credit hours straight for two years and then return to Alaska where I would design properties from the subdivisions we were developing which would have hopefully been all sold by then. We packed up our household (with a lot of help - especially since in the midst of it my thyroid went crazy) and drove to Utah. It was great to be back at school, but I quickly discovered that it was not realistic to take 18 credit hours and that some of the classes I had taken previously needed to be retaken. Consequently this four-year program will take me .... four years. I am nearing the end, however, with only two more semesters left before I graduate with a bachelors in Landscape Management with an emphasis in design and a minor in business. It is difficult to adequately express what these three years have been like for me. Each semester brought a tremendous amount of new challenges and growth, awareness and stretching such as feeling my brain burn while doing accounting, chemistry and algebra, learning that I am passionate about pruning trees and starting businesses, writing a children's book called Isaiah's Garden, being able to communicate in Spanish, starting a social business called The Kids Creating Art Business Club, becoming a Jr. Master Gardener leader, working on another business called FloraWell and learning how to do landscape designs. With all this learning, however, what I feel I have really learned is how much I don't know and want to learn and that now I am just at the beginning of being able to learn and am ready to apply what I have been learning.

Before I can do that, however, I would like to share with you some of the things I have been learning - in my next entry.