Blog Post 21: Isabel Bandoroff

At this very moment, somewhere in the universe, a mother is scavenging to find food for her family, for her children. She is looking everywhere, for some loose change behind a couch or in an alley. In a trash can for some leftover pizza, because she doesn't have enough money to buy a fresh one. She's just been laid off, and her drunken husband left them a year ago for a younger, prettier girl. He left her with three kids to take care of: to clothe, feed, entertain, and to send to school. Sometimes they cry at night because they go to bed hungry. She always puts them first, and she always makes sure that they have more to eat then she does. But right now she is utterly hopeless. What can she do without a job? So she's searching for loose change in alleys and leftovers in trashcans, and tomorrow she will look desperately for another job. It's one day at a time. She finds two slices of pizza and a couple bucks, it'll do for now.