I’m Karen Childress.  I’m 69 and I live in Missoula, Montana.  I’m unmarried and unattached.  I worked in Insurance for all my working life.  I’m not a very social person so I never really made any friends, at work or outside.  In the office, they called me ‘Childless’ behind my back, but I heard it one day.  It hurt, a lot.  I think I would have liked to have children, but it is what it is.  I had a sister but she died 5 years ago from cancer so I’m alone in the world.

I have a pension, a small one, from the company I worked for.  Not much to show for 45 years of loyal service.  I get by, but I don’t have much spare money after paying all my bills.  I’d like to leave Montana; I hate the winters, and always have, but it costs money to move, and I don’t have it.  Plus I don’t know where I’d go, or what I’d do when I got there.

I don’t really have any hobbies, other than reading which I love to do.  I occasionally watch a show on Netflix, but I’m not really a TV person.  My life is pretty dull

Honestly, I feel like I’m just marking time, and that my entire life has been a waste.  I’d like to do something now, especially if I could make a difference somehow.

I hope I get chosen, whatever it is that’s being offered.  I’m ready.