What a great experience - thanks for sharing it with us!

Great post!! At 25 years of age, I was a single mother of two children under the age of five. I went to nursing school and worked parttime. After three years I was able to support my children and they learned the lesson of working hard to succeed. I...

What a lovely post! Especially your line:  How being middle aged doesn't mean you can't achieve something new. Life is so full of possibilities, and it's important to remember just.There's a saying somewhere that women hold up half the sky and then...

I LOVE this post.  Thank you for sharing your journey.  One of my goals is to show my own daughter the same message.  Not sure if I'll succeed, but I hope she benefits from my efforts all the same.  She is very supportive of my writing and has...

Love this Connie!

We are all examples to the people around us! Thank you for sharing. By the way- it turns out that baking a chicken with the breast down makes for juicier white meat - so you were on to something!

Great piece, Connie.  I agree - youth has a certain idealistic confidence that anything can be achieved, but age grants us wisdom and the discipline to actually complete something.  I toyed with being a writer in my 20's, but decided (thank God)...

How true it is that the hard work starts after you write the last page. Love the chubby baby analogy!