Surprise! Our lives are filled with these unexpected encounters. They can be big, like winning the lottery, or small like coming home to a fresh bouquet of flowers. Unfortunately our lives are also filled with bad surprises. Those times in your life when some crappy …

I grew up in the land of cacti and sunshine 360 days of the year. Arizona was a beautiful place to live, if you didn’t mind sweating nearly every day. But that also meant that I didn’t really experience true season changes. The most exciting …