Everwhere is walking distance if you have the time

[ClingingToHope]

XW's world view is no bigger than her back yard. She's never wanted to live more than five minutes from her mom. She tells the girls she didn't go to college because she didn't want to leave her parents.

There is a big, big world out there and I don't want D9 to be scared to see it.

That's why in the summers we go to Chicago and Florida and this year Winnipeg. I try to give them some big city excitement.

Some people are perfectly fine living and dying in one spot and knowing no more than a handful of people.

What I've said is, if you go off and see the world and discover that your home town is where you want to stay, fine. I just want them to go off and see something else. Don't be scared to see the world.

That's funny coming from me because I'm living on the street I grew up on. I can't go anywhere without running into someone I know from sports, high school, growing up or from the paper.

But I was born here and I don't want to die here. Once the girls are safely off to college I hope I finally break free. I went to college and got into journalism to see the world, but then I met and married someone who wouldn't live 10 minutes from her mom.