Soul Food
Through Thick And Thin
Chapter One
Chicago - March
Maxine Chadway stood in front of the kitchen sink, allowing the faucet to
drizzle cool water over her partially frozen pork chops as she separated them
for dinner. She'd have to break the news to her husband tonight. Kenny would
have a fit about her wanting to take an evening writing class - not because he
wasn't supportive, but the man hated change. Her being gone at night once a
week would alter his routine.
But hadn't there been many warning signs that it was indeed time for a change?
Her sister, Bird, had just narrowly missed ovarian cancer - and Bird's
household had to adapt, just as the whole family did when some of them narrowly
escaped being killed in a car accident. God had been good to her loved ones,
and to her, and she wasn't trying to tempt fate. So many families hadn't been as
lucky on September 11....All she'd been able to focus on since then, trying to
tuck worries about her own children into the recesses of her mind, was, What if
something happened to her? Who would tell her children about their ri ... read full excerpt from Soul Food: Through Thick and Thin ebook
