“My priority shifted to mental and emotional agility.” Former Davidson College NCAA Division 1 Athlete Isabella Lozano Talks Agility

At 22 years old, fresh off an English degree from Kenyon College, one of my first professional projects out of college was writing a Teacher Resource Guide to accompany the production of 'Honus and Me' at City Theatre in Pittsburgh.

There are a lot of people out there who will cookie cut, paint-by-numbers, over-engineer, spreadsheet tabulate (yes), formula-ize (should i keep going?!) the story.

Whatever your answer is to that question, I can guarantee it's fully human, both emotionally and physically. Things like feeling goosebumps; feeling love; feeling stomach-churning nervous; finding the balance of fear and excitement when you step out of your comfort zone; feeling warmth; feeling cold; the moment you realize you’re from the same hometown as the person sitting next to you on the plane; kinetic sparks between people who go to pick up the same thing; how you've figured out how to smile with your eyes while wearing a mask.