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I grew up in Montréal in a truly bilingual family. My father always spoke English to me and my mother always spoke French.

To me, if I can’t do it to its fullest, I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to be on the sidelines. I wasn’t able to do it to my fullest potential so I had to part with it.

So, yeah, I watched my team win a championship on a small TV on the Texas-Mexico border.

Co-owner, along with her husband, Brad, of Tiffin Aire Inc. The Newmans take great pride in being a family-owned and operated business that was founded in 1968 by Kim’s parents, Dwight and Jeanne Gnepper, with only three employees. When her parents retired in 1989, Kim and Brad bought Tiffin Aire and have grown it tremendously in almost three decades. Today, Tiffin Aire offers aircraft charter, flight instruction and rental, aircraft sales and maintenance, parts and oil sales and propeller/governor sales and service and de-ice boot sales/installation.

You never know when it could happen. Older kids and adults know what they can have and what could happen to them. My little guy could see a peanut on the floor, pick it up and eat it.

I have an amazing group of friends who are strong, independent women who know exactly what they want. They’re fierce. They’re ambitious. They’re so loving and kind. They inspire me to be more than I am.

It’s symbolic to me. Forever, I’m going to have my kids’ names on me but in their handwriting.

I’m becoming one of “those people.” I always wanted to be one of those people who are like, “Stressed? Go run!”

It’s very non-specific. I like it because every card has a different meaning to someone. You can get a lot deeper meaning than what you think going into the reading.

I like to try to do surprises but I’m always paranoid that she’s on to me, so I threw her false clues.

This is the most selfless thing he could’ve done for me. We moved all the way back to his hometown, got all settled, and he’s just willing to give that all up for me.

It literally just blew my mind, like the amount that was going on at one time. I was just like a kid in a candy store.

The thing is, I still think I’m 26 years old. I never imagined that getting older happened so fast. Seriously, so it’s getting harder and harder to convince people that I’m 26 when my one son is 30 and they have a 2-year-old child.

We moved out to Ohio and I got a job at NBC in Cleveland. I was producing their 11 p.m. newscast and I did that for a little over a year, and then this job at the MCC opened. Me and my wife thought it would be a great transition and I remember thinking, “Oh, okay, I can handle this. I’ve done big producing.” But teaching is much, much harder than I thought it would be.

In 1999, when I was 2, my parents found out I had type one diabetes. Since I’ve had diabetes for 17 years many people ask me things like “oh, well how do you do that? I don’t understand.” But it’s always been my normal. Just the other day, I was working Cedar Point and I stashed some smarties in one of my pockets and I didn't want to bring bulky juice because if my sugar goes low I need to eat something and shockingly, my sugar went low, and I was sneaking smarties to get my sugar back up.

You start this journey by thinking you know that you’re fine. I’ve moved around, I’ve traveled. I’ve done things, been places, met people and had new experiences. Then, it actually happens. It hits you like a brick wall. I mean, culture shock going there was tough.