I cannot remember the weather outside, but then again that was not relevant. The day he was born the sun was shining for me. Now, seven months later, the sun is still always shining for me. My son quickly became the highlight of my life, the most unique part.
Let me take you for a ride. I was going fishing everyday from September to late November, from 10 o’clock at night to 5 o’clock in the morning. When I would come home around 5:30 a.m., my son would wake up and instead of going to sleep, I would stay up and take care of him. Throughout the day, when he would sleep I would sleep. At this time, my son was only 5 months old, and one of the many challenges for me was learning how to give him different foods. I did not have any experience with taking care of a young baby. I spent time asking family, as well as regular customers who bought the newspaper I sell, Street Sense, how to take care of the baby. They would give me books to read and one of my regular customers would even tell me stories about her experience taking care of a baby with acid reflux. That was especially important to me because upon taking my son to see doctors, even after tests had been done, they did not known what was wrong him. Other customers would tell me stories about their children and how they took care of them.
I want to specifically thank Phillip Black who introduced me to Street Sense. He must have seen potential in me that I had not seen in myself. Not to mention our vendor manager Allen Hoorn, who gave me the opportunity to work in the office where I had interacted with over 145 active vendors, all with his or her own story to tell.
