My Personal Disaster Movie

A couple of years ago, if someone had told me that in a single week I would experience a family emergency, blow out a tire, drive through a desert monsoon, and be evacuated because of a wildfire, I would have assumed they were pitching a screenplay for a low-budget disaster movie.

And yet... here we are.

This past week was one of the strangest I've had in a long time. It was a week of mishaps, literal disasters, near disasters, and more than one moment of asking, "What just happened?" It was also a week that reminded me of something important: no matter what happens, I'm going to be OK.

Let me start at the beginning…