Sunday Firesides: There Is No Other Layer to Life

You may have heard that life is not a dress rehearsal. That you can't wait for your "real life" to begin.

You get this idea.

You understand it.

But you are still waiting, aren't you?

Even as you get on in age, even as more and more of the things you thought about when you were young — marriage, children, homeownership — settle into place, you continue to fe…