Ten circumstances/events that have influenced the direction of my life.

Details to be filled in later . . . but I wanted to jot these down before I forgot them:

1. Growing up in a small Midwestern town.
2. Discovering reading, and reading like a fiend.
3. Sandra Day O’Connor's appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
4. Discovering baseball.
5. Attending a girls' Catholic high school.
6. Moving to Texas for college.
7. Invention of the Internet.
8. Meeting the footloose sister of my grandmother.
9. My father’s death.
10. Watching the movie Shopgirl.