I've got a wonderful wife, a beautiful baby girl, a job I love, and I'm about two years shy of finishing my PhD. If I had it to do over again, maybe I'd choose to begin teaching earlier and start having children earlier. But those couple years in between helped give me the financial stability to go back to school, and by the time we had our daughter I was ready in every sense of the word. Besides, I wouldn't have the family I have now if I would have taken another route. Maybe I'd choose to erase some of the many dumb things I've done, but maybe not; most of them were a lot of fun.
