Rain lashed the windshield of our tiny plane as it took off yesterday down a small grass and gravel

So...today I am 30. Like all birthdays, this one provides introspection, but even more so than usual.

I tell myself to be grateful, to accept my looming 30th birthday with open arms and an open heart. 

Look out thirty because here I come! I still have over a year left but as we all know at this age, time

I remember that when I was little, I used to think that someone who was thirty-years-old was ancient.

I thought about turning thirty many times before my thirtieth birthday. I thought of the good things

Today, is my birthday.

What does a birthday mean? Meaning, I'm certain would always shifts, just like

As a twenty-nine year old rapidly approaching the thirty year mark I tend to think about the past. I

I remember watching Oprah Winfrey's show more than a decade ago, in which a woman was constantly talking

Ok I'm smart, I'm funny, exciting AND intelegent there's nobody quite like me uum well thats how I felt

As a single woman approaches her thirtieth birthday, feelings of fear, anguish and the unknown lay trapped

How would I put it to tell you how I felt when I finally turned thirty. When I turned thirty it was

When I turned Thirty years old, I was divorced and alone. I had to work the day of my birthday. And

The months and weeks leading up to my thirtieth birthday were the worst! I had a long to to list of

"Don't trust anyone over thirty!"

I heard this phrase when I was a child. That's when I got the impression

It seemed like it was far away once. Then all of a sudden it was right around the corner. I couldn't

For some reason or other, the thirty year mark had troubled me for months before it actually hit. I

When I was in high school 30 was like 50. I never wanted to get that old. I remember the restaurant