Thank you for your warm holiday wishes!

I took a long hiatus from this wonderful forum when I realized that I suddenly needed to earn a living in order to maintain custody of my children, and right away! I put both of my books and my short story collections on hold, and concentrated on the quickest way to develop an immediate income after being a stay-at-home-mom for 17 years. The divorce settlement I received was meager (my kids have more money put away for their college education than I got for the 20+ years I was married to their dad...) and I lost many a night's sleep over how I was going to put food on the table.

I have worked non-stop for the last 6 months, sometimes not getting more than a couple of hours sleep a night, and eventually settled on getting involved with a network marketing group that has integrity and an extremely useful health product that has strong endorsements from the medical community. I also devised a secondary plan which is now also under way to develop a market for another health product that I have started importing from overseas..as you all know - health concerns are near and dear to my heart and I developed a background by necessity over the years in nutrition and alternative medicine, so it seemed like a logical progression to me.

With the money that these products will bring in, I plan to open up a nonprofit organization to come to the aid of women/mothers around the world who find themselves in predicaments similar to the one I was in, and don't know where to turn for help. I will keep you all posted on my progress.

It was not until yesterday that I opened my writing folder for the first time since the divorce and revisited some of the work that I had put on hold. Afterwards, I checked in with the Boomer forum and realized how much I had missed visiting with you all. By the way, if any of you are still interested in being interviewed for my book on divorce, please send me a private posting on this forum and I will respond to you directly. Please remember that I am not looking for horror stories in spite of what I've been through: I am looking mainly for stories about courageous women who have beaten the odds and gotten their lives back in spite of their ordeals. Any useful advice that you may have for women who may be going through a similar break-up of their families, or suspect that such a break-up is imminent would be greatly appreciated. I want this to be an uplifting book...there is already too much negativity in the world, and I prefer to accentuate the positive and view the proverbial glass as half-full.

In the meantime, I send you my very warmest, heartfelt wishes for a Merry Christmas, a Happy Chanukah, and an awesome Kwaanza! Peace be with you.

Namaste,
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