Share   I found my self-worth on a hot May day in 2004 when I crossed the center stage and, holding my head high for perhaps the first time in my thirty-three years, was handed a piece of paper that said I’d finally arrived. And in that half sheet of fancy paper, marked with the seal of educational approval, I found value. I found esteem.  I found me. I started college on a whim when I was twenty-nine years old.  I’d never really done anything right. I’d certainly never finished anything.  And I really didn’t think I’d make it very [READ MORE]