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Eight facts or habits about me. I’ll try.

1. I loved to whistle when I was about 11 or 12 or so, probably because my Daddy whistled. I’d be whistling away at a song and come to a part that was too high for me and I would hear him whistling the part I couldn’t reach. Then I got braces on my teeth and couldn’t whistle any more.

2. When I was a sophomore in high school my best friend was a senior. She lived in a three story house a few blocks from the Matanzas inlet. When I spent the night with her we would climb out of her bedroom window onto the roof and lie there looking up at starts and out at the water. I have always loved both the night sky and bodies of water.

3. In elementary school, I can’t remember what grade, I was Cinderella in a play by the same name. Although I had no trouble shedding a shoe during rehearsals, during the actual performance, it wouldn’t come off and I had to reach down and take it off while running off stage. It was my first and last starring role. I still enjoy being the center of attention, but only when I can “pull it off.”

4. The old fort in St. Augustine was one of my playgrounds – this was during the early days of WWII. There was a cedar tree right nest to one of the coquina walls surrounding the fort and it had a limb that stuck out making a perfect seat. It became my secret reading place. Now I can read almost anywhere and always carry a book in case I’m stuck waiting somewhere. People watching is almost as interesting, but you need a lot of people around so you won’t be conspicuous watching.

5. I took fencing in physical ed my first year at Duke. Freshman got the left overs. I lived on the third floor of the dorm and found I had muscles I never knew I had – or wanted to have. After that I signed up for archery and folk dancing. I walked two miles a day for exercise before I injured my foot. I miss it.

6. After teaching school for nine years, trying out a lot of different grades, I realized I would never make retirement in that field. I was fortunate to get a job with the local afternoon newspaper, filling the slot of the pregnant editor of a weekly teen section. I worked for that paper until it ceased publication 11 years or so later. Then I worked another 13 or 14 years for the morning paper owned by the same company. I never had a journalism classes in college – I don’t think Duke offered them way back then -- but I had a Phi Beta Kappa key, so I wore that to work . No one was impressed, so I put it back in the box. But I made it to retirement!

7. I lived most of my life waiting for tomorrow, when I was sure things would be better somehow than they were today. Then I finally realized that today is all there really is and I began to look at it instead of through it as if it weren’t there. Today’s troubles may be more real this way, but so are today’s joys.

8. I came to know God when I was 14 in the library of the boarding school I was attending. I was baptized and confirmed shortly after. But it was mostly just in my mind. I came to know Jesus as my Living Lord and Savior when I was in my late 40s. That must have been about the time item no. 7 came to pass. The rest is the story of the journey with Him and turns up here and there in my blog.

I can’t tag people. Sorry.

Eight facts or habits about me. I’ll try.

1. I loved to whistle when I was about 11 or 12 or so, probably because my Daddy whistled. I’d be whistling away at a song and come to a part that was too high for me and I would hear him whistling the part I couldn’t reach. Then I got braces on my teeth and couldn’t whistle any more.

2. When I was a sophomore in high school my best friend was a senior. She lived in a three story house a few blocks from the Matanzas inlet. When I spent the night with her we would climb out of her bedroom window onto the roof and lie there looking up at starts and out at the water. I have always loved both the night sky and bodies of water.

3. In elementary school, I can’t remember what grade, I was Cinderella in a play by the same name. Although I had no trouble shedding a shoe during rehearsals, during the actual performance, it wouldn’t come off and I had to reach down and take it off while running off stage. It was my first and last starring role. I still enjoy being the center of attention, but only when I can “pull it off.”

4. The old fort in St. Augustine was one of my playgrounds – this was during the early days of WWII. There was a cedar tree right nest to one of the coquina walls surrounding the fort and it had a limb that stuck out making a perfect seat. It became my secret reading place. Now I can read almost anywhere and always carry a book in case I’m stuck waiting somewhere. People watching is almost as interesting, but you need a lot of people around so you won’t be conspicuous watching.

5. I took fencing in physical ed my first year at Duke. Freshman got the left overs. I lived on the third floor of the dorm and found I had muscles I never knew I had – or wanted to have. After that I signed up for archery and folk dancing. I walked two miles a day for exercise before I injured my foot. I miss it.

6. After teaching school for nine years, trying out a lot of different grades, I realized I would never make retirement in that field. I was fortunate to get a job with the local afternoon newspaper, filling the slot of the pregnant editor of a weekly teen section. I worked for that paper until it ceased publication 11 years or so later. Then I worked another 13 or 14 years for the morning paper owned by the same company. I never had a journalism classes in college – I don’t think Duke offered them way back then -- but I had a Phi Beta Kappa key, so I wore that to work . No one was impressed, so I put it back in the box. But I made it to retirement!

7. I lived most of my life waiting for tomorrow, when I was sure things would be better somehow than they were today. Then I finally realized that today is all there really is and I began to look at it instead of through it as if it weren’t there. Today’s troubles may be more real this way, but so are today’s joys.

8. I came to know God when I was 14 in the library of the boarding school I was attending. I was baptized and confirmed shortly after. But it was mostly just in my mind. I came to know Jesus as my Living Lord and Savior when I was in my late 40s. That must have been about the time item no. 7 came to pass. The rest is the story of the journey with Him and turns up here and there in my blog.

I can’t tag people. Sorry.