Courtney Nolan-Hunter
Special to the Valley NewsThis June marks twenty years since I graduated high school in Gilford, New Hampshire, barely made it across that stage and had absolutely no idea what was coming except a one-way ticket to California four days later. In the two decades since, I've built businesses, become a mother of two, survived a stroke during brain surgery that left me severely blind and rebuilt myself more times than I can count. I've had the kind of life that doesn't follow a plan and I'm grateful for it.But if the version of me that exists today could sit down with the girl waving her diploma, ready to go live, I'd slip her this list instead.This might make you or your family uncomfortable. And that's my point.It's better to cry in a pile of money th
