Chapter 3: Bucket List Dream, Press Credentials to a Rugby World Cup
CHAPTER 3: Bucket List Dream, Press Credentials to a Rugby World Cup Posting the memoir on the internet chapter by chapter and then interacting with people as the next chapter was being written shaped how the memoir evolved. Ultimately it turned into a mostly chronological journey through many parts of my life. I had originally planned to do this chapter early in the memoir journey because it was a Rugby World Cup year in 2019 when I started the memoir. Once again I was pursuing what was at one time a bucket list goal to obtain press credentials to a Rugby World Cup. I say “once again” because the goal was achieved in New Zealand in 2011 right after Carolyn and I left our jobs in Honduras and right before we realized we wouldn’t be teaching school ever again. I wasn't particularly enthusiastic about reading and writing as an elementary student, but I don't think that was the fault of any teacher in particular. I have fond memories of many teachers before I went to military ...