It’s been a long time since my last post. Time goes by so
swiftly, now that I’m older. But I still find myself waiting. I wait for my
husband to come home from work to know when to start supper. I wait for my
adult children to call to find out about their lives. I wait for an actual
handwritten letter from someone I know to be in my mailbox. I wait for my
numbers to win on Powerball. This week it is at $214 million. Ahhhh, my husband
could retire and I could stop waiting for more of my books to sell (singleparentwisdom.com;
e-books at smashwords.com). I could buy a resort on a lake in a warm climate and
hire someone to run it. Then I could live the resort-life forever. Someday,
maybe.
This blog began as advice for young parents to complement my
book series, Single Parent Wisdom: If
only I knew then, what I know now. With that goal, I did not add to it
unless I specifically had advice or wisdom to share. That philosophy changes today from a
television show I just watched. I listened to Corbyn Hightower and her family on The Jeff Probst Show. The television was
on as usual while I was on my laptop checking out my email accounts, etc. Mondays are my accomplish-little days. Mrs.
Hightower related how she had lost her 6-figure income and sold the family car.
Now they were living in a lower-rent house and riding bicycles everywhere.
Plus, growing their own food in a small garden. The Probst show discovered her
through her blog about the recession and the changes her family has made.
Hmmmmm.
Mrs. Hightower writes well, more poetically than I. She
blogs about her life on her iPhone that she has not given up. That sounds like a good idea to get me blogging more
often. The more I write, the better I feel, as it empties my brain of random
thoughts, and the organized ones, too. I have been stymied by my son’s advice
that I need a vibrant, possibly shocking, title for each blog submission in
order to draw in searchers looking for a good story. That task has often
stopped me from blogging all-together. Plus, I thought blogs should be short
and to the point, but after reading Hightower’s blog, I guess not.
A 6-figure income I have never had, even when I actually
worked full-time and included my husband’s income, whichever husband it may
have been at any time. Five figures was the most our income tax returns ever
showed, and that was truly all our income. No unreported cash payments for work
lurking in the shadows so the accountant could not see the glowing dollar signs.
Now I have a new goal that will make me feel better by
writing my thoughts and hope you will enjoy reading as you learn more about my
life and my philosophies. You were probably expecting the singular word,
philosophy. I have found one philosophy only covers one area, for example, the
philosophy showing your preference of how you teach others. We all teach,
whether our paycheck states it or not. How we share the information we possess
or learn from a book is indicated by our
teaching philosophy. Perhaps I’ll write more about that later.
So many topics. So little time. I look forward to talking to
you soon. We will learn from each other.
