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April 20th, 2018 Sitting in the car looking at how many miles until I hit empty.  Just feeling grateful for the $20 of gas my son put in the car for me.  At the same time also feeling pretty useless.  It has been a hard adjustment this past year. I know that I shouldn’t feel this way because things will

It is Friday the 13th, April 2018. Yesterday, I spent a good portion of the day at a veteran’s job fair.  I thought there would be more employers there but unfortunately, some did not show. I talked to few companies, told them what kind of positions I was looking for and then handed out resumes.  It was an okay job

It is April 9, 2018.  I am still a single mom of four kids.  This is not where I thought I would be at 47 (my birthday is in 12 days). I had hoped that by the time I reached 50, I would be settled down somewhere, paying off a mortgage, mid-career, planning for retirement and vacations.  My kids would

It is 11:50 pm on a Saturday night.  I sit alone in the darkness, texting, chatting online and thinking about how to write this. This morning I went and saw the movie “Acrimony” by Tyler Perry starring Taraji P. Henson. The synopsis of the story states it was about a woman who gets revenge for being betrayed by her husband.