A Taste of Her Own Medicine

  “He looks like he could plow my north field without a horse.” Sonja Watts needs to re-enter the workforce after divorcing her husband of thirteen years. Taking the advice of her sister Birdie and her best friend Estelle, she signs up for a six-week course for entrepreneurs, hoping that she will learn everything she needs to know to build a business to support herself and her kids. Sonja is able to ignore the fact that most of the students are younger than her by ten years or more. It was what she expected. But when the instructor walks in, she debates packing up her new twelve hundred dollar laptop and walking out because a woman my age should not be subjected to a man that young and that fine for six-long weeks without satisfaction. Atlas hasn’t been interested in dating since he moved back home from California. Adjusting to newfound success in the town where everyone sees him as that big, geeky guy who cut grass for pocket change when they were in high school has been awkward. Asid