Christie Blatchford, a columnist in the Globe wrote on the weekend about going to Kandahar, Afganistan.  She shares a cab at 3 in the morning with Bobby, a woman from Sydney Nova Scotia:

She is returning from leave back home in Cape Breton to resume her civilian job as a cleaner at a big coalition base at Kandahar Air Field.  She is 61, almost 62, though she looks 15 years younger, and says of herself, “When I got married, I was scared to death; when I had my kids, I was scared to death; when I got divorced, I was scared to death.”

So she decided to shake things up in her life and applied to work for a civilian agency that staffs the Canadian part of the air field.  She says she’s never been anywhere but loves the job and couldn’t wait to leave home again to get back to it.  She’s not afraid of anything in Kandahar.

What a woman huh?  I don’t know if Kandahar is in my future, but god help me be as fearless in my life as Bobby is.