The Side Effects of Endorphins

I am not sure I thought much about what I wanted to be when I grew up. I will focus on one specific memory.

I sat watching the television of the Phillies playing the Mariners. I believe Seattle was a new team. Baseball was my life back then. The memory of what I was watching is vague.

All I recall is the camera panning views of The Pacific Northwest. The view was exotic and vastly different from my small world in Pennsylvania. There were plenty of oceans, but oceans I did not recognize. I only knew sandy east coast beaches

I wanted to go there.

I also recollect, being in Fenwick Island Delaware as a kid. I was as far east as I could be.I remember watching the sun set in the west. There was a road that led into town. I imagined an entire country out there, I knew very little about.

I remember getting off the airplane many years later for my first assignment in Seattle. I had a connection to that first glimpse as a five year old.