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A year ago this month, I challenged myself to begin a journey of connecting with my community. I’ve lived in Oklahoma City (and nearly every suburb of OKC) my whole life, but yet I spent a good chunk of that life in a bubble at home. The reasons were common enough, I was married for a long time, raised two children, created a business from the ground up (which took me all over the world, ironically), and ran a home. I was indeed buried in my bubble because I had to be. Today, I am in a new place. My...

You could circumnavigate the entire neighborhood in 10 minutes on a bike if you didn’t mind powering up a long, gradual incline and a blind curve in either direction. I used to lament the neighborhood’s lack of children because I had no one to play with. I spent a lot of summers sitting outside with notebooks, drawing or writing stories or coming up with my own imaginative games. Most of all, I spent time in the woods across from my house, a plot of land big enough to build on, only no one ever had. I never had a clubhouse....

A year ago this month, I challenged myself to begin a journey of connecting with my community. I’ve lived in Oklahoma City (and nearly every suburb of OKC) my whole life, but yet I spent a good chunk of that life in a bubble at home. The reasons were common enough, I was married for a long time, raised two children, created a business from the ground up (which took me all over the world, ironically), and ran a home. I was indeed buried in my bubble because I had to be. Today, I am in a new place. My...

You could circumnavigate the entire neighborhood in 10 minutes on a bike if you didn’t mind powering up a long, gradual incline and a blind curve in either direction. I used to lament the neighborhood’s lack of children because I had no one to play with. I spent a lot of summers sitting outside with notebooks, drawing or writing stories or coming up with my own imaginative games. Most of all, I spent time in the woods across from my house, a plot of land big enough to build on, only no one ever had. I never had a clubhouse....