The Glass Ceiling Escape

By Dr. Carolyn Ferrante Crymes DBA MBA

A group of advanced-degree ladies meet by chance during their struggling years and come up with a creative business idea that will make their education worthwhile.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524522872

Dr. Carolyn Ferrante Crymes DBA MBA

Carolyn Ferrante-Crymes is not just an author and a screenwriter; she is a wife and a mother of three children. While raising her children, trying to be a good role model for them, she has studied acting at Hartnell College in Monterey County, California. She also studied acting and improvisation along with her daughter at both the COCA Center for the Performing Arts and the Black Rep Theater in St. Louis, Missouri. She hosted a TV talk show called Stir Up the Gifts, Focus On You on a local St. Louis cable channel, where she interviewed new artists and local business owners and community service organizations. Carolyn performed in a play in a café in Buckhead, Atlanta, called Cecelia over the Half Moon as the Fat Lady that sings opera (layered in overstuffed clothing). She was also honored with a Blue Ribbon, which is the highest award possible for performing a monologue at a speech meet when she was on the speech team in junior high school. She has written six books for the purpose of movie scripts and is working hard to get those in theaters soon. She is a former student of Flo Valley Community College in St. Louis, majoring in filmmaking and acting. She has been acting, producing, and editing commercials, videos, and movie shorts at school, and she plans to submit some of her creations to film festivals in the Hollywood area and around the world. Carolyn has an MBA (master’s degree in business administration) and a DBA (doctorate degree in business administration). Although her DJ personality name was Dr. C at KCFV Radio (89.5 The Wave) in Ferguson, Missouri, she doesn’t care about a position where she’s called Dr. Ferrante-Crymes, she just wants to inspire and/or make an audience smile via her writings.

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Copyright © 2016 by Dr. Carolyn Ferrante Crymes, DBA, MBA.

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CONTENTS

The Glass Ceiling Escape

Next Day

Meet Marnie

Marnie’s Family

Back To Work With Marnie

Fidelities

Meet Aaron

Alan

The PK’s Family

In California With Gerald

NICK at Micky-Ds

Reverend Mother

Monday evening at Fidelities … .

Meeting with the Spouses … .

Dedication

As most of Ami’s book, this book is dedicated to homelessness, hunger, illness, drug addiction, and economic oppression. However, The Glass Ceiling Escape is also dedicated to all the women who had trouble breaking through the glass ceiling, especially those with children, who’ve struggled and suffered because of that ceiling.

The Glass Ceiling Escape

Mia is a hardworking mom. She’s an x-ray technician in a clinic. She is a newlywed of 3 years and they have one son. She prayed that her first child be a boy so that when she had a daughter she’d have a big brother. She’d always say that it gives a girl a certain sense of protection. Mia’s infertility was so frustrating though, she would be glad and grateful for any gender.

Late for work, Mia runs into the back door of the clinic, Cover for me Martina, I’m going to take a shower real fast, I’ll explain later.

She didn’t have an affair, did she? Martina thought out loud, and then shook her head. Nah, not her. But what? Humh – Whatever, she shrugged her shoulders and walked up front to make sure the coast was clear.

Whoo. I feel refreshed. Thanks for looking out.

Did you have a hot date?, Martina asked in disbelief.

"No. My hot date was the infertility doctors and my husband.

They wanted to analyze the compatibility of his sperm and my – uh – juices, while they were inside me – uh — right after we had sex this morning. I had to go straight to the doctor’s office without taking a bath & then I came straight here. Yuck, I felt dirty greasy, sweaty," she said, shrugging her shoulders and frowning.

So are they going to give you infertility pills and make 8 babies, or what?, Martina joked.

I hope not. I don’t think I can carry multiples. I wouldn’t mind having twins, but that might be too many for my body too. I’ve taken fertility pills before. They didn’t work though. I want to try a stronger dose, but I don’t want a football team.

What did the doctors say? Martina asked.

They just said that my husband had a million spermatizoa swimming like olympic champs in their petrie dish; and that they were compatible with my fluids. – I just want a little girl. I have a boy and I had 2 step sons with my previous marriage. Now I want my little girl. I can dress her up with frilly clothes and I’ll no longer be the only female in the house.

We’ve got all girls in our family. I wanted a boy, but I’m not trying again. I’m happy and already too busy with my 3 girls, Martina said. You’ve only got one child. You still have a chance to get your girl, she continued.

"I hope so. I’m tired of being disappointed though. I don’t care what gender it is really. I just want to stop having false alarms and miscarriages. I want to really be