Kathi Swanson:  

Life Life is always interesting, changing, veering off in indistinguishable patterns. However challenging or exhausting, even when I find myself, wistful, longing for a little more monotony from day to day, I look back with changed eyes, upon each of these stressful periods and think, "You know it wasn't that bad, bring it on." My little angles Jennifer, 7 and Mathew, 5.5, are growing up so quickly. In their eyes I see the most revealing tangible representation of my life before and after, the growth, the struggles, the laughter, the smiles that stretch on for days or weeks at a time, and ultimately the arrival at something I never recognized before them, as unconditional love that knows no ceiling. Unlike anything I had experienced before, this love refuses to cater to any circumstance, it exists beyond the ineffectual words I'm grasping for at this moment. Presently, I am working at a nursing home as a nurse’s aid, assistant managing a store and studying biochemistry and an assortment of other stimulating subjects, the latter, more of a hobby ...Expand for more