"I could get a lot of hours completed by enrolling in A- and B-term classes. So, I started adding on classes as soon as I realized it wasn’t as hard as I feared; you just have to stay on top of the reading and do the things they tell you to do.”
“When I spoke with the coordinator, she took a look at all my credits she said, ‘Absolutely you can do this. You'll have your degree in a year.’ At that point I'd been trying to finish this degree for — I'm not even exaggerating — 20 years. I think I cried. It was this this thing that was hanging over my head that I hadn't finished.”
“It was some unfinished business. It was something for (my mom), something to show myself that I could do it, and something to show my children that even though things slow you down, you don’t have to quit.”