My Way Out

I would sit by my window in the back of my house and look down the dirt road that led to the highway. I wanted to get on that highway and just keep on going. I wanted to see places and people. I wanted to do things like go back to school. I wanted to earn a degree and say "I did it." I wanted to be free to think and expand my mind, find my potential in everything that I would do.

I married when I was very young, just barely out of high school. My marriage was not all th...