Cue the adage "not all who wander are lost" (thanks, Tolkien). With an undergraduate degree in Communication (U of Dayton) and an MA in Religious Studies (Fordham), I spent the early years of my adult life as a youth counselor, campus minister, teacher, and community service leader. After some personally very messy times, I have transitioned to an assistant in corporate America but am most deeply interested in hearing and sharing our stories of life's joys and messes and how to embrace living--no matter how imperfectly. I no longer adhere to a formal religious tradition or spiritual practice nor to the supernatural but do believe we are grappling with the light and dark of life and sharing these experiences with each other is a new way to define a "spiritual experience".