Greg Kull and Sharon LaCouture
We live in Wilmington North Carolina
Wilmington is right above Carolina Beach, about as south as you can get in N. Carolina
We have lived here for 5 years, reluctant transplants from Cape Cod, Massachusetts
We moved here to take care of Greg’s Mom who eventually succumbed to colon cancer in Dec 2004. Now we find ourselves terminally stuck in the deep south, wanting to go HOME but not knowing how.
We are taking PayPal donations in case anyone wants to help fund our eventual move back to Massachusetts [you can just send money to ebaysalesman@bellsouth.net via PayPal]
Now Greg’s Dad is ill and we just cannot afford to move until we sell our home here in Wilmington
[$175,000 and it's all yours...here's a link: BUY MY HOUSE ]
And Sharon’s Mom isn’t getting any younger, we’d love to spend their last years with them and not be so far away. Our youngest child [the third of 3 daughters] has one more year of high school left, I should say, 1 more year and a day, tomorrow is her last day of 11th grade. We are trying to get her to make some kind of PLAN…what does she want to do AFTER High School? We’d love for her to go to college, she had her heart set on UNC Chapel Hill, sadly she just doesn’t have the grades and we just don’t have the money. She says she’d like to be a radiologist which would be awesome, and a great career choice…and then she’ll make some off the wall, or off the cuff comment about NOT going to college and travelling around Europe for a year. I could SCREAM AND RIP MY HAIR OUT!!
Our youngest child was adopted in Massachusetts. Massachusetts has a tuition waver program for adoptees, IF you go to a state college in Massachusetts you get 100% FREE tuition.
That is a 100% FREE college education, with a degree and everything! Now she says, [picture her sassy little self, one hand on hip...]
“Well…What if I don’t want to go to college in Massachusetts??”
“HELLO!!??” It’s a FREE college education! With a degree and everything!
Anyway, we are trying to get her to commit to a PLAN…do any of you have a 17 year old daughter? Here’s my point…ask them to commit to a life changing plan, you get a blank stare. It’s like asking them what they want for dinner that ISN’T take-out. The lights are on but nobody’s in there…ask them what time the Sex & The City movie is playing, you’ll get ALL showtimes for 3 different cinemaplexes. They can rattle off the cell phone numbers of their 12 closest friends in under 10 seconds…but ask them where they want to be in a year? You may as well ask them how to make roses from radishes. [which, by the way, CAN be done]
I just don’t understand this, and maybe that’s because I am 48, NOT 17. But if someone said I could go to a fully accredited 4 year college for FREE when I was 17, I would have jumped at the chance. Unfortunately, I was told that my Dad drank away any college money, and since that would have to have been split 7 ways with my 6 siblings, let’s just say, clown school was NOT an option for me.
That’s okay, my Dad’s gone now and I have forgiven him…although I would have made one hell of a journalist and I would know how to spend the money when I won my FIRST Pulitzer.
