Are you a stay at home parent? Do you have healthcare coverage for yourself?

I work from home and I love it most days. Having the ability to support my family while being available at a moment's notice is very motivating. I appreciate having a job, but seeing my kids off to school and being there when they get home is so cool.

I remember commuting two hours before and two hours after work each day. Having my child tell me that "you are never around" was hard and an extremely eye opening day for me. Again, I am grateful being able to work from home.

Conversely, what's not so cool is how I recently found a thicker area / lump under my arm and feared the worse, especially since I do not have health insurance.Why, because I am too embarrassed to ask my employer to fill out the necessary forms to get Medicaid. Call it pride and you might be right. I just think that I should have a choice. I think that providing you with my pay stubs should be good enough, why do I have to involve my employer. Do you not trust me. So what if I don't actually work at the company, you would still provide coverage if I was unemployed, so why do you need me to get them involved at all to get medical insurance. The good news is that the lump is gone: I started exercising doing jumping jacks and I guess that I was pumping up the chest area with them and the push-ups. TG.

OK, enough about me. Do you have a similar story to share? Heck for that matter if you have a conflicting example as to why you should stay in the rat race, please share. Let's start a debate. I would like to see what other parents have done and if they have moved from corporate America. Share whether or not you have healthcare via an employer or otherwise. Do you need coverage like I thought I was going to?

Read any good books lately

Okay so I thought that this would be a good place to start my blogging from. I am hoping to see what the rest of America, in particular those out of work, or underemployed (college educated people forced to take a job to survive, part-timers, etc.) are reading to fill the downtime.

I am just about to start reading another one of our president's books. I am late in reading it, but, I was sort of refusing to do so as I have became disheartened with how the economy still continues to be a "hot mess". I am hoping to further dive into his pysche and gain a better appreciation of his forethought and message. ("The Audacity of Hope").

Please feel free to let me know what your reading and share your thoughts on this healthcare debate as it relates to your employment status.