I keep almost remembering her.

I was voted Most Likely to Go to Jail in high school. I have reached the age of comfort over fashion. I live with two cats who tolerate me. I read boring history books for fun. I listen to polkas, waltzes, and classical music without apology.

I'm still a little crazy. There's room on the path if you are too.

The work I do for a living

I have spent over twenty years in disaster response and operational resilience. I have trained hundreds of communities through FEMA, and I run the business continuity and operational resilience program at Tulane University. That is the work I get paid for.

The work I do because I have to

The Returning Project is the rest of it. The part of the work that does not have a paycheck attached to it because it was never about the paycheck. It is about the woman I was before I was told who to be, and the women who are quietly carrying the same question.

I am not here as a guru. I am here because I went first and left the light on. If something here landed, the first conversation is waiting.

Returning together,

Bonnie