Also, congratulations on losing your job. I mean it! - I think with your life experiences, knowledge, skills and compassion - you are meant for someting much better, that helps people in much more fundamental ways. Writing? Life coaching? Counselling? Keep us posted on whatever it turns out to be.
I've been "off the radar" recently because frankly, with a 7-year-old, a 1-year-old and a need to sort my own career out, I've been feeling very overwhelmed, tired and rather LDP (low desire for posting)!
Having said that, posting does help my balance and spirit, so I will try to post a bit more often - maybe even put up some pics of my W and kids.
S&A
"A man can be destroyed but not defeated" - from The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway.
Which I take to mean that every man has within him a spirit of relentlessness and optimism. Its already there; he just has to cultivate it.