My Mother in Law Tried to Take Everything After My Husband Died So I Signed the Papers

in Florence. Tuition was $4,200 a semester. My bank account had $1,085,000 in it. The question of whether I could afford school had simply ceased to exist, replaced by the more interesting question of whether I had the nerve to step into something new.

The application had a box asking what motivated me to pursue the program.

I sat with it for a while.continue reading …