A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. I saw it on Animal Planet.

Which goes to show what we see is not always what’s underneath. My daughter’s situation is a good example. She’s had a run of tough luck. Her husband ran off, leaving her with three kids and rent to pay. She had to get a job, and I pitched in by sitting with the kids. Then her car broke down at the same time her refrigerator gave out. A family down the street from her gave her an old fridge from their garage, which was a blessing.

I had to go to a car pawn loan shop many years ago when I had my own money problems. It was a difficult experience, but I got through it and learned that you sometimes have to look at your assets to figure out how to survive. So I went on the computer, on the internet, and found that a car title loan can be done all there. I looked at the application at Car Title Loans in Jasper, and bingo, there we were. It was easy to get the repair money she needed, $440, with the value of that Pontiac.

My daughter doesn’t deserve these kinds of problems, and it’s sad to see the kids living with less than a lot of their school friends. But she’s a survivor, like her mamma.