I have worked hard all of my life and now it is paying off in spades. All of the pitfalls and obstacles were magnified when I was a teenager because I suffered with epilepsy. There was a thirty year period when I took a daily dose of anti-convulsants and trudged on though life. This was also the time when I made my greatest achievements; I bore both of my children, I was a great wife and the ultimate encourager to my West Point officer husband. I started my own magazine, realized that work, while important, is not the end all to life-raising healthy, adjusted children is more important, so I folded the magazine when the first issue was at the printer. Even now, I laugh to myself and to my children and tell them they will spend years in therapy undoing the nomad existence that is the Army. My greatest achievement is I lived to tell about it. So many haven't.
I believe the quote from Winston Churchill about never, never, never giving up. I didn't and now I don't know how. I have been married 40 years, both of my children graduated from college and live on their own. And I just returned from vacationing in China (bucket list), went to my husband's fortieth class reunion at West Point. Life is good. God is good. I realize that in life you accept the good and the bad with equal aplomb. You figure things out and keep on truckin.
In my waning years I have written and published a book of poetry and for the last seven years I have been teaching English at a local college (another goal of mine). I may or may not start a small business. Every day is a gift...
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