Thanks for the encouragement. You know, you go along, thinking and feeling just fine, then a whole another bunch of stuff bubbles to the surface. I'm really glad that the ex-premies are real people and care about each other.

It's not easy turning 50, either . I thought it would be no big deal. It's also a little strange being a full-time student at a university at this age. You feel kind of invisible to the rest of the students and wish you were that age once again (or they were all my age). But neither of those possibilities are going to happen!

I guess I'll just be grateful that I have the options I have. I love learning and I'm getting to pursue subjects of interest to me, for sure. Better than working and going to school at the same time, that's a burnout and takes forever.