In 2018, I am finally going to start a blog working through 365 days of impacts on my life. This is meant to tell the story of who I came to be in bits and pieces. This exercise is meant to show we are all shaped by the people, situations, circumstances, joys and sorrows that have impacted our lives. Sometimes we are influenced just as much through learning about what we don't want to be like, than what we turned out to be. Sometimes it is a stranger who makes a lasting impression on us, and we may never know their name. Sometimes it is those who've been the worst to us that actually teach us the BEST lessons. If nothing else, since I don't have kids, this will serve as an autobiography of experiences that have shaped my character since May 3 1965. I will try to include pictures where I needed. Some will not need pictures. As I enter my 5th decade, I can look back and say that In my teens (as most are) I was extremely insecure, unfocused and had stage f...
I never got to meet my paternal grandmother Ethel White. She passed away a few years before I was born. She was a classic beauty. My dad always told me what a lovely woman she was. She was as beautiful inside as she was out. When Harry left her, he left Dad and Uncle Bert to take care of her and they did until she passed away of an enlarged heart. I am sad that I never got to meet her, but she did an awesome job raising two fine men that raised GREAT families of their own. She was a great testament to perseverence in hard times. Though I never met her, the example she set made a big impression on me and how I handle myself when up against the odds.
