My name is Mel, and I am an adult. But I am not grown-up. Never will be.

I am also a mother of two, wife and a high school teacher for almost 15 years. And one of the things I have discovered in my many years of teaching, is that we spend lots of years guiding wonderful young students into wonderful young adults, and then…we throw them into the deep end.

But math, physics, English lit, and history don’t help those poor students when they need to do grown-up things, like sign an apartment lease, save money and invest, or meal plan. You need a handbook, or a guide, to make that transition. (And if you don’t get one, it might be decades before you learn some of this stuff.)

More than that though, being a grown-up means you have to decide for yourself what you want your life to look like. And no one tells you how to do that either.

So I want to try to fill that void…an ‘adulting’ teacher, a mentor, a veteran adult, who has made so many of the mistakes for you that you can avoid them. I’m a sherpa, not for climbing Mt. Everest, but for an even bigger challenge, being an adult.