Dear Reader,

It's been a chaotic and life changing year. I have accomplished to survive the pandemic, the loss of my only child, and to celebrate 30 years of marriage to my best friend. I learned a great deal about myself in the last four months. 

1. I'm a true survivor and I will come back stronger for the future. More determined to make something of myself and my life and my son, Danny's, life.

2. I come from a long line of survivors. My ancestors fought manifest destiny and being genizaros in N...