I author and express my life responsibly, and unabashedly, according to my needs and desires. I am a dutiful and accountable professional, a devoted and caring mother, a generous and loving wife, and a hospitable and audacious lover. I am a citizen, mother, wife, and libertine. Each role challenges and rewards in its own way. One does not impede on the other. I embrace each. In the absence of any one, I am not whole.