writetouchgirl
writetouchgirl
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| Member | Jan 29, 2013 (13 years) |
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Bio
God brought me into the world one wintry day at Druid City Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. I am the oldest child of two of the most loving, smart, and kind people I’ve ever known. They built a small family filled with love, family, Southern culture, history, and charm, to include church, Vacation Bible School, weekly library visits, sleepovers with grandparents, and after church Sunday night pancake dinners with friends. We watched Wagon Train, The Virginian, Captain Kangaroo, Cousin Cliff (it’s an Alabama thing), and later Hazel, Bewitched, and The Dating Game. I grew up in a safe, sheltered world until my father had his first heart attack when I as 12. After that I didn’t take as much for granted, though I still had an easy life. I liked people, and though I was shy, I liked to hear their stories or make them up. I always wanted a big brother to pave the way, but God blessed me with a sweet little sister, some kind friends and neighbors, and as the oldest child, I felt a need to show independence. I always sought out people new to my class or school so I could hear about other places. I read several books a week sometimes, mostly fiction—good fiction. The Little House books, Louisa Alcott, and others as a child. My mother was a children’s librarian in the school system for awhile, and she instilled a love of reading that she had as a child. That was one of the greatest gifts I have ever received. I was secure and confident until junior high school. Thank goodness for books then! I became the Bristow Reporter, the principal’s column writer for the school newspaper. In high school, books! Even there, I used jokes from Reader’s Digest to attract the attention of certain nice boys. I liked it! I became editor of the high school yearbook and tried to represent our student body as individuals rather than groups or cliques as it was becoming. It was a time of social change in the country and in the South. College really reflected that, though I was busy in the co-op program, showing that independence. I married young, right after college, and we made our way into the work world. Almost a decade later we joined the Air Force, started a family, and set out to explore the world. We left home, welcoming change but knowing it would be bittersweet. It was. Another child and a separation from the military brought us South again, to Richmond, Virginia. I have lived here longer than anyplace else in the world. I have grown wiser, more experienced in what it is to be human, and thankfully, my faith has grown. God has blessed me, taught me, and never abandoned me. He loves me through Spirit, Christ, and His word. Christ died for my sins, and was resurrected. God’s Kingdom is even now prevailing. As a woman in her late sixties, with precious grandchildren, looking at the world today, I am grateful God is in charge. He is all powerful.
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