A New Blog For A New Year Of Life
Today is my 65th birthday - and it's been a wild ride so far. I'm old fashioned, and will continue to use two spaces after a period and colon. I was born in the rear seat of a car on the way to a Navy hospital in Virginia, and my family lived in Virginia, Tennessee and Texas by the time I was five years old. Dad retired from the Navy after 22 years of service on my fifth birthday. We were stationed at the Kingsville Naval Air Station in Texas, and we moved to Gainesville, Florida so Dad could get a degree using the GI Bill, and so he would "never have to shovel snow again." I spent my school years in Gainesville, and spent the majority of the summers running wild on Chincoteague and Assateague Islands in Virginia. The islands were where my Mom's family had lived since 1697. When I say I ran wild on the islands, I want to clarify that I never did anything wrong there... I just had few limitations....