I am hoping to go back to college this fall. I don't know if my average is high enough to qualify for my source of school money, however. Just why I want to go back to college is something that I am trying to figure out just about now.
I keep saying that I want to study social work, but writing seems to be the place where my greatest success lies right now. On the other hand,..the writing is not bringing in enough money to pay for itself right now and I am having to support myself with my practical nursing. I also occasionally teach sign language classes on the side for a little extra money. Somewhere in here lies the key to what I should actually be doing with myself.
The trouble is is that I want to do EVERYTHING!
I am looking back over some of the loose newspaper articles that I did not file away into my albums.....six years on Ohio Governor's Council On People With Disabilities, one DAY on Ohio RSC's State Consumer Advisory Council,..(the one that I never returned to because of the inconsistancies between state and local levels.), Outstanding Young American Woman..(three years in a row!), Outstanding Alumni of Malone College for 1983, two excellent write-ups in the Malone Magazine: AlumiNews,....and on and on and on. These give me great satisfaction,..but......something is missing. I can paper the walls of my house with my public service and academic awards,..but these are not enough.
I have been invited to the local Self-Help For hard of Hearing and Deaf Summer Picnic and for the first time in almost ten years,..I am going with my entire family. Perhaps,..my question is not,"who am i?", but "What am I?"