leave your cares behind
here’s the perfect chance – troubles …
they cannot find you
From an ad in the New Yorker Magazine on May 6, 1933 for traveling on the French Line.
The ad featured a drawing by James Thurber.
Travelcade! Full of expectations?
Not interested or at least not as interested as leaving my cares behind me and that troubles cannot find me.
My daughter is working to get back on her feet best she can with two little girls to look out for.
Two weeks ago everything was looking good.
She had a substitute teaching job / semi-permanent on call but still paid hourly but with the promise that she would be working every day.
Because she was working, she was able to qualify for reduced day care for the girls.
Things were full of expecatations.
Then Helene hit.
They were without power or fresh water for days.
Internet and phone just now being restored.
Schools have been closed and will be closed until next Tuesday.
No substitute teaching jobs.
Then she was informed that she had to get the girls into day care, when it opened as you had to use it once a week or lose your spot.
When she showed up with the girls, she was told she also had to pay for day care for the weeks they were closed or lose her qualification for the reduced cost program.
Even though the day care was closed by the storm.
Her rental insurance would not cover the cost of food lost when the power went out as it was only a tropical storm, not a hurricane.
And FEMA rejected her claim for assistance.
Where do you go to get on the French Line today?
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