Sometimes, I sit back and I think about how strange my life is. Sure, everyone feels like their lives are strange to a certain extent, but when I truly sit back and examine my existence, I sometimes get weirded out by how odd it is.

Yesterday, I had phone calls and conversations with people literally all across the globe. Tracey is in Denmark. My daughters are in Canada. My sister is in Tulsa. I did a Google Meet with four former students in Savannah, Vancouver, New York, and Abu Dhabi (Hello, former students!). And I ended the evening trading witty retorts with my best friend from high school, who lives in Arizona.

I was born in Oklahoma. How did I end up here? How did this dude end up living in Canada, China, Bangladesh, Ghana, and the UAE? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? I don’t know the answer to this question.

If you want some answers to some of these questions…questions of how I came to reach this point…then I offer you two examples. There are two television shows that I have watched in my life where I have sat back and said, Yes, that’s ME up there on screen.