How one woman lost her job, got divorced and found happiness
April of 2009 was a pivotal month for Robin Mather. Within a week, the Chicago Tribune food writer was hit with a wicked one-two punch. One, her husband of 12 years wanted a divorce. Two, she was being laid off. And while in her new book, The Feast Nearby, in which she shares how she ultimately learned to land on her feet again and live on $40 a week, her story had me wondering: how do you find happiness when the ground just shifts beneath your life like that?
