Tagged!!

Ok, Linda...I'll try.

1. In my Senior year in High School, I played the lead in "Brigadoon" (which was originally a singing production, not a dancing one thank heavens), and the Senior class play "June Wedding". Unfortunately, they were in rehearsal at the same time and were presented a week apart. I kept getting the names of the leading men mixed up...one was Billy and the other, Tommy. Fortunately it all came together at show time..loved it.

2. I remember going to piano lessons in San Francisco when I was 6...on the streetcar, by myself! Catholic welfare paid for my lessons...they were $1.50. A couple of years later, I went to live with my Mom and Brother after having lived in foster homes for my first 8 years.

3. I remember Lori learning to read Braille when she was little (9 or 10 I think) so that she could "read" in bed after lights out..(after almost burning the house down with her little lamp under the covers) I remember Debbie going after a bee on our front lawn, using the heel of my good shoes...she'd been stung and said "I'm lookin' for the one that stung me, and when I find him, I'm gonna eat him!" :) I remember Danny overturning our car with four teenagers inside, and nobody getting a scratch!
I remember Linda and Danny coming to get me at a neighborhood park carnival. I'd been working one of the booths(something about milk jugs..hey it was over 40 years ago). Anyway, I shushed them away and as they turned I saw the back of their heads were both bloody! They'd fallen off the merry-go--round..I felt like demon-mom at that point. I remember John telling a concerned teacher, who was trying to help him find something interesting to do since he was ahead of his class and bored, that he wanted to build a bed. I remember Wendy undergoing repeated blood tests and xrays as a tiny tot with that awful brace on her little leg...never crying.

4. I hated History in school but love it now. I have a very inquisitive mind and will ferret out every detail of something that interests me, often to the chagrin of those around me.

4. I have a passion for animals and politics, alternative medicine, nature,babies and books....not necessarily in that order. I treasure meaningful conversations about almost anything.

5. I really have to watch assuming what's in the mind of others. I tend to jump to conclusions...big time.

OK....I tag everybody who hasn't already done this little exercise :)