I am a 41-year-old survivor.  A mother of four and stepmother of 5 neither a 13 year failed marriage or a 7-year successful one have taken me out.  The children aged 10 to 22 wage their battles on my sanity, but at the last summit, it was decided that I am still winning that war.  The world in general (bureaucracy, stupidity, intolerance, greed, lack of manners, bad customer service, and anyone who is just plain mean) threatens my equilibrium but I make a come back every time.

I am not particularly strong, determined or religious (although, I do TRY to keep the faith) but I can take a joke especially, it turns out, if it is on me.

I am born and bred a Hoosier, but have lived in New Hampshire and Connecticut long enough to find out it was time to come home to Fort Wayne.  We may have been voted fattest and dumbest city in America, but our flaws become us and we are content here.