Dear Readers,

I will be thirty at the end of October. I have been looking forward to it, happy to have the age to go with the gray hairs that are multiplying all over my head.

I spent my twenties staying up too late, watching too much TV, drinking too much beer and sleeping in too late. I plan to spend my thirties and the rest of my life pursuing goals and making a contribution (however small) to the world in which I live.

I am in my last year of college. In May 2010 I will receive my bachelor's degree in Speech Communications. This seems as good a time as any to begin to document the goals that I have for my life and the dreams I have for my future now that I am awake from my years of average, bored, listless complacency.

Love,
Regina Van Winkle