Relationship

Married

Hometown

Born & raised in southern Indiana

Places I've been

Lived in Indiana, Michigan, Florida, North Carolina and now central Georgia. Traveled by water up and down the east coast from Pamlico Sound, around Florida to Tampa Bay, to the Dry Tortugas and the Bahamas; Occupation(s) teacher, librarian, real estate sales, business owner, non-profit executive

Education

• Franklin College, Elementary Education - 1952 to 1956
• Indiana University, Library Science - 1980 to 1983

More about me

The first 45 years of my life were pretty conventional but in 1977 my husband left his work in industrial middle management, we bought 20 acres, & tried "back to the land" living for a while.  We designed & built our own berm house, raised our own food, and bought a small business to earn enough the cash we needed.  I raised bees and sheep, bought a loom & a spinningwheel & learned to make cloth.  I took a job to pay for the new house & in 1992 was offered a job in Florida so we sold everything we owned & moved to the coast, bought a 32' sailboat on which we lived for the next 8 yrs.  After we retired in 1996 we traveled the east coast & the Bahamas on our boat/home.  In 2001 we moved ashore, sold the boat, & learned again to be landlubbers. In 2009 we moved to GA to be closer to one of our kids in our old, old age.  Now we're on a lake, in the woods, and enjoy seeing our kids/grandkids more than a day or two twice a year.  

 When asked what I did before I retired I have to ask which life. It has been an interesting run and as we play out our final hands, we have few regrets.

Activities

Reading, knitting, gardening, kayaking, camping, fishing

Favorite Music

Most music but primarily jazz and classical

Favorite TV Shows

Sunday Morning is the only one I rarely miss but I enjoy Discovery & History channels, movies, many of the PBS shows

Favorite Movies

Too many to list but movies such as Out of Africa, Man for all seasons, movies set in places I know

Favorite Books

Journals, diaries, bios, autobios are my favorites but I enjoy Ann River Siddon, Dorothea Benton Frank, Pat Conroy & others who write about places I've been

Favorite Quotes

To thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day thou canst not be false to any man.

Favorite People

My kids

Favorite Places

Southern Indiana hill country

Favorite Animals

My dog

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