Help this family to keep going for 6 months.

“And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?” This is the last line of the first stanza in the 1980 Talking Heads song “Once In A Lifetime”. David Byrne explains that the song is about how life keeps moving forward, and there is no way of stopping it. The forces of nature (like the ocean) keep moving without any conscious effort, and so does life.

While I HAVE worked as a freelance person doing some writing, coaching, consulting, and computer work, I have not had a “9-5” in 4 years. There are MANY reasons why that is, and as most of you know, some of that has to do with my middle child having three major joint replacement surgeries during this time, and the care needed to help manage all that.

To be clear, that isn’t all of the reason, but about half.

It takes about $1,000 per month to manage this house’s bills for the three of us to live here. I have been able to maintain that, AND pay medical and other bills with freelancing, up until this point. But I can no longer, I need help.

FEAR has been paralyzing me from THIS ask for far too long. Fear and shame. Shame of asking for help. And now the need is kinda desperate.

Well, how did I get here?

I know how I did in some ways. But in so many others, I actually don’t know. And that is the point of the Talking Heads song. For so many, it just happens – life, and we don’t know how we got there. For us, the waves of the ocean just keep crashing down on us.

It hurts me to ask ONCE AGAIN, to help out this family. I need to make it to the end of January, and hopefully I can be back on my feet either in a 9-5 or with a more solid freelance gig (working more on the former however). Please, if you can, take one more chance on this hard hit family. We would be ever grateful for anything you can financially provide.

So much peace and love to all. Thank you for your consideration.