“The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” (Robert Doisneau)

I’ve probably said it before but if someone had told me a year ago all that was in store for me and the life that would be mine today, I would have laughed at them. I would have thought they were absolutely looney. Completely crazy.

Such is the unexpected life.

I don’t think Hollywood could have scripted a more unexpected plot, antagonists (some of them) and twists and turns in a single experience, than I’ve been blessed with. And the one thing I can say for it all: it has been not only unexpected but exciting. (I’m not talking about the exciting, looking forward to Christmas morning kind of thrill; I’m talking the terrifying exciting of a heart attack-inducing roller coaster ride when the earth drops out from under you, you lose your stomach, scream and plummet unexpectedly to a new place on the track.)

I certainly never anticipated or would have arranged for the “excitement” that found my life. And honestly, the revelation of a Ponzi scheme and my divorce were just the beginning. There’s more to my unexpected life than a Ponzi scheme, a prison sentence, a divorce, re-entering the singles scene, stalkers, “starting over” in my 40s, returning to the work force full-time, and providing for and raising four children alone.

Quite a bit more.

Here it comes.