Starting Over

Sarah is starting her new job today. This is the first job she has had in eleven years. Before she became a widow, Sarah was a stay at home mother of three and her husband was the person who was the home provider. He was in the military and had his life taken on a peace mission. Now Sarah, spends every day trying to balance the bills, babysitters and a minimum wage job that does not provide enough to her. The strain has aged her face by years beyond her real age.


This is a scenario that happens each day. People all around us start over in life with riles that they are not used to in order to just survive. Every day, we are amongst divorcees, widowers or people who have been laid off and seek new employment. Their life has not worked out with the plan of just the day before but we have to give them credit. These good human beings are struggling while smiling and we do not know what is actually going on at home at all. We do not know how it feels with the loss of everything and finding employment in places that they are not used too and where they are not paid enough to essentially survive.

This thought was brought to myself as the new year came upon us and how people use this as a time to restart something in their lives. We do not realize that people have to do this every day and not by choice.

So, here is to these “Start Over” ladies and gentlemen in 2010. May it be the year you successfully rebuild.



How to Buy a Book

I have a habit of purchasing books by authors I have never heard of by looking at the title of the book and then the artwork. I have to recommend a great story that I had discovered this way. The White Road by John Connelly. I am not going to tell you what the story is so pick it up and once in a while choose a book this way. It proves to give interesting results.



In closing I was walking to my work recently during a snow storm. A complete stranger pulled over to the side of the road and gave me a lift. Later on when I was walking home from work during the same storm, a complete stranger pulled over and gave me a lift home. Looks like 2010 is going to be a good year.