It was during the summer. I had been married to Ryan ... my high school sweetheart... for about twelve years, and we lived comfortably in the small town of Tomball, just north and a bit west of Houston.
And for my career, I had a great job as an on-site technical consultant with a mid-sized project management firm based in downtown Houston. As it turned out, I rarely saw our main offices, since I was routinely placed with corporate clients in north or west Houston... where several of our client companies had their headquarters or satellite offices.
I’ve been working as a Sr. technical consultant for seven years, and I had just rolled off a short-term software coding project in the north Houston suburb of Shenandoah, when my company assigned me to a fairly large task force that would be i
