Answered Prayer and A Love Story

Hi, Friends,

1. My Texas daddy met my Kentucky mama in Muscatine, Iowa. It's right on the
Mississippi River. It was a great place to be a kid. All shady streets and
solid Germans and city parks and music/art/poetry every day in school.

2. I got my bachelor's degree at age 40, in business administration. They made
us learn computers. I fell through the cracks & worked as a glorified admin for
a year, then got a book contract. After the book was done, I was standing in my
kitchen, praying out loud, "Lord, I want to work part-time with a business
administration degree. That is impossible, Lord, so it's going to have to come
from you." Just then the phone rang. The Dean of Business Education at the
local community college hired me sight-unseen over the phone, to teach business
education, part-time. It was, my daughter says, the happiest job i've ever had.

When Darling Daughter learned MS-Access in college, she brought the textbooks
home and said, "Ma, this is right up your alley." This was right when not a lot
of people could program in SQL and Access. I've had steady employment ever
since.

I've been very, very blessed with a string of great bosses, who did not "dumb"
me down and let me go 90-miles-an-hour on a lot of interesting stuff. It makes
a world of difference having a mentor and someone who believes in you. You know
what I mean?