: About Me

I find myself facing my later years with ambitions still not realized. I turn 70 this year and I cannot put off these goals any longer. At the urging of my daughters, writing and sharing more is one of those goals. This is NOT a "bucket list" as I hope to live 20-30 more years.

I will add here as I accomplish each goal.

1.) I write digital scrap booking articles for SSReflections.com and KBandFriends.com.

My passion is ...

Computer technology...it still amazes me after over 30 years.

I know too much about ...

teaching...7 years of retirement and I can't erase it.

My parents always told me ...

Do your best.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a marine biologist.

My favorite memory ...

eating ice cream at my daddy's drug store

Why I write ...

It is a drive I don't really understand.

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

Novels BEFORE I watch the movie.

My first job ...

working in my parents' pharmacy

My best moment ...

Being present for the births of my granddaughters

My inspiration ...

My daughters, who both write and share their writings

Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) Encouraging your children to garden

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Green Thumbs, Brown Thumbs Giving children the gift of a "green thumb" has to rank near the top of what you can do for those precious youngsters. All too often, a child's first experience with gardening is in schoola sad little bean seed planted in a half-pint milk carton using soil from the playground. It isn't going to live and flourish there! The child will not be harvesting beans for the family dinner, and you know that is what the child imagines. Even if the seed sprouts, it will probably die in the classroom over a weekend or vacation with no water. There is NOT enough room in a milk...

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