Michelle Reedy:  

I left Crowley because I had to - not because I wanted to - family issues. I stayed away in Texas for the same reason but my heart was always somewhere in that small town that I had come to consider home and I always wanted to go back but couldn't get past the issues. I did go collage for a year but didn't finish my degree. A regret but never regret the reason, my son Christopher was born in 1990 and full time work and being a good parent took over my life. School has always been on the back burner but as a hard worker and quick study I found that I could move up pretty quick and still spend time with my son waiting for my opportunity to go back to school. Life happens from that point on - a shaky first marriage ended and my only real tie to Tyler, Texas died the same year. Finally I could move on and not feel the guilt, work brought me back to Louisiana but only as close as Shreveport. I tried to make it there as a single parent of two awesome children but as luck would have it I found another part of my heart that had been missing and married again. The military had other ideas about the comfort of home and our first assigment as a married couple took up to Germany for 4 years only 10 months after the marriage. We loved it but I still yearned for the comfort of the south or at least some contact with the old life I had there, the military thought warmth was in order as well and sent us to the Mojave desert for 3 years were I learned that I actually preferred the humidity of the South compar...Expand for more