Getting My Priorities Straight in the Middle of the Ocean

I’m a woman of obligation. I am a woman of should.

I have spent most of my life doing what was expected. When I was 19, I got a job at a summer camp in the Poconos that would have given me a chance to drive across the country with people I barely knew. I was studying to be a teacher and I could not have found a more fitting summer job. I didn’t go. I had other…