Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Haven't been traveling - Too busy working on my Doctorate

A few years back my son and I started this blog as we were adventuring around the Pacific Northwest and Northwestern parts of America in our RV. We have a plan and dream of spending a year adventuring across the US in our RV. Stopping anywhere and everywhere he wanted. Possibly writing a book and my finishing my doctorate. However, the online teaching job I was applying for did not come through and I ended up with a different amazing opportunity to work and teacher technology to educators in Panama, Central America. Its been a great two years now and I am still working on that doctorate. 

The good news, I am near the finish  line. The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter by the day. Sadly though, I have run out of student loans as I have hit the lifetime cap and thus my remaining tuition fall completely on my wallet now. No pay, No finish! I have been managing with monthly installments to my school but now with the final tuition bill having arrived, its hard to focus on the Capstone project and dissertation like paper I must write. I WILL be done by Spring 2014 if not sooner. But even if I finish my work and it is awarded, I won't receive the degree without paying the full balance on my tuition.

So I decided to see if the kindness of strangers and friends might help me reach this ultimate education goal. I only need $15,000 - and if I had 1,500 friends all willing to donate $10 that would be perfect. But alas I don't have 1,500 friends to ask... so I am hoping that maybe through the kindness of others, having paid it forward myself so many times, and a little grace from G-d, I might find some support. Please help me and share with anyone you know who might be willing to support a single mother, a widow, a teacher, a cancer survivor, a prior service Army member, an overcomer, or graduate student - for I am all of those things!

Thanks for your time and support. Knowing you read this and gave me a few minutes of your time is sweet. It's the strangest thing posting this and the GoFundMe page. I would so rather be asking for support for a friends or charity. But alas I must as for me this time!

Shalom -