Nearly a year ago I started this blog with a post titled "lucky girl" and I've come back to that idea again lately, thinking a lot about how lucky I really am. I'm lucky to be healthy. I'm lucky to be old enough to know better when I need to but young-at-heart enough to be open to new adventures. I'm lucky that one day I decided to just start doing the things I always said I'd do "if only" and a...