Belated self introduction
It takes such a long time for me to read everything. Last night I realized one is supposed to introduce themselves here. I am a retired high school art teacher.
I am divorced. My ex and I opened a Korean restaurant not long after we were married. It was the only thing I felt comfortable doing. She was the manager, I was the acknowledged owner for licenses and permits because I was a US citizen and that made things easier, bureaucratically. Her mother was the head cook and her sisters were the rest of help, waiting tables, etc. I did the bookkeeping and helped out in the kitchen on busy weekends. I also had a car wash for a few years. We split up about 8 years later because she wanted to try a bigger market on the west coast. By then her mother had retired from the kitchen and moved with her husband to LA. When that failed, she didn't want to come back to Smallville Kansas and we divorced. I raised our son until he was 18 at which time he moved out to Seattle to get to know his mom and the rest of his Korean family, but she was hardly ever around even then. He sold Mac computers with a catalog company for a few years then got a license to be a blackjack dealer and was making pretty good money. Then....
About 5 years ago I moved to a smaller house to retire and in the process ended up in the hospital. They contacted my son and said my chances of surviving much longer were about 50-50. He came home on leave and ended up staying with me. He was a manager at a call center but quit when he decided to go back to college. He is attending KSU now and is a Sophomore. He is majoring in business. About three years ago he met his SO and they both have converted my finished basement into an apartment for themselves. She is also a student at KSU.