Friday, December 31, 2010

About Hope

"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so powerful as hope.  With hope, one can think, one can work, one can dream.  If you have hope, you have everything."

Think about it.
All my hopes were gone . . . but I knew there was the Sun.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

How I Got to Where I Am

This past year of 2010 has been, by far, the worst year of my life.  It all started in September, 2008.  That's when my husband lost his job in a company that went out of business.  Almost a year later in August, 2009, I lost my job and that's when the insidious downward spiral began.  Our medical benefits went to Cobra, the daily, neverending search for jobs was in progress and the elusive grasp on hope began.