What the dickens...!

"No man knows till the time comes, what depths are within him." (Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend)

Lucille La Verne as The Vengeance from A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

Early in December, 2016, I was told that, due to budget cuts, my contracted work would not continue beyond the end of the year.

It seemed to become a scene out of A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….