JOURNEY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

Journey in the Middle of the Road; One Woman's Path Through a Midlife Education is an epistolary account of the four years it took the author to upgrade her Registered Nursing diploma to a Bachelor of Science degree. Returning to the local community college and then the state university in mid-life proved an exciting and terrifying challenge. Along the way she discovers that the learning difficulties that have plagued her throughout her entire life have a name, Dyslexia, and a solution that she must embrace. Humiliation is buffered by friendship while lIfe pulls, tugs and tempts her away. But she will not be dissuaded from this path and finds a way through the maze of bureaucracy to succeed in her goal.
For many who set sail on this voyage the charted destination is not always the port to which gives safe harbor. When this happens it is a gift of our own making.