In roughly 13 hours, I will officially begin my final trip around the sun as a twenty-something.  Age 29 is upon me, and is looming large.

Of biggest concern is the expected maturity that comes with reaching 30.  Personally, I think I largely hit that point sometime between 15 and 23 due to things like living essentially my whole life with divorced parents, living in three different states by the time I was nine, a lengthy bout with depression, or simply just my personality.

Sure, there were still aspects of my personality that didn’t reach trigenarian levels until recently.  My parenting skills, for one, didn’t arrive in full force until my own divorce, which placed on me the responsibility of protecting someone else’s life on my own.  Nothing will mature you quicker than that.

But enough of the woe-was-me stuff.  It’s time to kick off a year of reflection.  The way I see it, for every nine seconds I’ve lived in the last nine years, I have precisely one second with which to reflect on that time before I reach 30.  So, in honor of me..well…yeah, just in honor of me…I invite each of you to share in a comment any of your favorite stories of me.  They can be shared so long as they fit the basic rules of the site: 1) this site adheres to Christian values, so your comments doggone well better, too; 2) Everyone’s privacy is respected, including mine; 3) an occassional “d*mn” or “h*ll” is acceptable language, but only if it is pertinent to the story; and 4) differences of opinion are not just expected, but welcomed — but be polite about it (i.e., anyone trashing me or another commenter will immediately be asked to stop, and continued abuse of this rule will leave me no choice but to ask again (and we all know we don’t want it to come to something as harsh as asking twice)).

I fully expect between zero and three comments here, considering my level of readership is usually directly proportional to the rapidity of my posts.