: About Me

I retired in 2007 and have always wanted to write. This seems to be the right moment.

At the present time I volunteer at our local Senior Center. They keep me very busy three days a week. I enjoy listening to their stories and they have many to tell. 

I left the Senior Center in 2010 and am now volunteering at our local assisted living home.  It is very different from the Senior Center because there are residents in need of help.  I volunteer in the office because that is were I am needed but I also socialize with the residents.  Some do not have family and they enjoy having conversations.  They may not remember your name but they do remember your kindness and smile and that is alll that is important.

I met my first husband on a blind date and we were married for 22 wonderful years until he developed cancer. He fought it for 5 years and then finally lost his battle. He took me out of the city and made me a country girl.

I remarried our best friend who is wonderful husband, we have two very special dogs named Misty and Ginger and a cat named Patches, that has a mind of her own, but is loving.

I wore several hats when it comes to work. I was not a professional business women but I was very good at what I did. I was a Office Manager, did Customer Service, worked in Assisted Living and finally a Receptionist in a nursing home.

I have done Volunteer work in nursing homes when I was in between jobs. Working with the senior population is very rewarding. I guess I am a senior now but I don't feel or act like one.

I have had a lot of valleys and hills to climb in my life and have come out on top. With my experiences I want to try my hand at writing.

I think everyone has a story to tell or to share and I am one of them.

I have reached another mountain to climb with my husband who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's.  I noticed the past two years that he was always repeating the same questions over and over.  He wouldn't go to a doctor until this year and that is when we found out for sure.  My sister noticed his progress since her last visit the year before.

I told him we would just take it one day at  a time and that I will always be with him.  He is afraid I will leave.  We have a challenge but we will face it together.  That is what marriage is about.  Remember sickness and in health.

I don't know why this is happening a second in my marriage but I have been very fortunate to have had two special men in my life.

My passion is ...

To write a book some day and to enjoy every day I am alive. Live passes too quickly and we must take time to enjoy and to help others. I miss my family very much. I have one sister left and we are very close.

I know too much about ...

Life, it's happy moments and deaths of loved ones

My parents always told me ...

To tell the truth and be honest and to find something special in everyone.

My childhood ambition ...

I wanted to be a nurse

My favorite memory ...

Too many to answer.. I hope I can put my memories into a book.

Why I write ...

I have stories to tell about my life. I think I have had a very interesting one. And would like to write about my family.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I like mysteries and romance. My favorite show is Murder She Wrote and Touched by An Angel on the reruns. I do not like what is on TV now execpt for the movie channels. I listen to Country Western, Oldies but Goodies and Easy Listening

My first job ...

I was 16 years old and worked in a Salami Factory for two weeks one summer, putting labels on the packages. I worked in the office and it was a lot of fun.

My best moment ...

Marrying my first husband I met on a blind date.

My inspiration ...

My late husband and my current husband because they believe I could do anything I put my mind too. They both gave me encouragement. My Mom, Dad and Father, they gave a lot of love and understanding.

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Alone in this World I feel as if I am all along in this world. My mind is like a whirwind.  I feel as if I am spinning in the desert and I don't know which way to go or to turn. They say I have Alzheimer's but I don't remember when it happened. For a fleeting moment I remember yesterday and my family then it gets foggy and the memory is gone. I am scared and feel all alone in this world. But this woman stands beside me and tells me she is m wife and holds my hand.  She said she will always be there and never to leave me to be alone in this world.  I feel comfort an...

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