I’m a recently divorced person who pays her own mortgage each month and works for modest pay in social service/education work.

During this recession I’m about helping disabled and unemployed people in foreclosure and my own recently graduated adult children and grandchildren struggling in this economy.

Even as I have fretted about my own vulnerable employment and other personal concerns, I still volunteer in the greater community, until I received the additional sum of $3,000 worth of Auburn’s new property taxes to be paid this December and February.

I faltered. What a baffling joke to lose my property because what taxes I can pay monthly I cannot pay in lump sums.

I live with insecurity during this recession, yet I budget for priorities only, and I have to let most things go until better, more secure days. 

Is a county more important and to be more secure than an individual?

Christa Reed, Auburn