George, why did you get me into this?Apr 06 '03 Write an essay on this topic.
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The Bottom Line Georgie, this wasn't as bad as expected. In fact I enjoyed it.
In fact I thought it was getting too long.
I received this e-mail from George two days ago asking me to write a few facts about myself. Being the egotist I can be at times, I thought he was asking me alone to write this. I thought I think I'll pretend I didn't get this. I thought maybe George was dipping into that Graygoose Vodka and would forget this. Well, I guess the beginning is a good place to start, and I that means my birth. 1. I was born at 6pm on February 27, 1935 in Spartanburg, SC. I like to think I came in time for cocktails and dinner. I think this accounts for my being a night owl and obviously is the reason I am a pieces. Pieces are usually off in their own world. 2. My father, was a Georgia Tech graduate and the first song I ever learned was "Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech." He met and married my mother, a fourth generation Atlantan, while he was at Tech. 3.We lived near my paternal grandmother, who reminded me of the Queen Mum. Granny loved hats, she loved her family of seven sons and two daughters. My grandmother's children never wanted to leave home. Four uncles and two aunts lived in my grandmothers house, at the time of my birth. My grandfather died the year before I was born, but he had left his family "comfortable" and had two apartment buildings behind his house so his children and their families could live in this complex. I was adored as a child. I was the first granddaughter and Granny worshiped me. I use to knock on her door and say "Granny, your little darling is here." My aunts told my children about this and they call me "Granny's little darling." Sometimes when they think I spoil myself or want my own way. More in teasing than anything else. 4. I grew up with this huge extended family. We had a house at Flat Rock, NC which was a short distance from Spartanburg. My uncles threw me in the lake when I was around three and taught me to swim. I was their pet and they teased me and played games with me. 5. My father died when I was seven. He had pneumonia and they had not discovered penicillin. It hit him suddenly and my aunt said all the doctors had gone to war, this was 1942. She felt had he had better medical attention he would have lived. 6. My mother was introduced to a divorced Army officer from Nebraska about a year after my father's death. She married the captain and we moved to Nebraska when I was nine. 7. I grew up in a small town near Omaha and had a wonderful time. I had a lot of friends and liked dancing, dating and boys. I have always liked the guys.(Something that has stayed with me all my life. Morals were very stiff so there was no "hanky panky." 8. I graduated from high school and headed off to Northwestern University at Evanston, right near Chicago. I loved Northwestern and I studied journalism. It was there that I got my first look at sort of "pre-hippies". I did all the things girls did during the 1950's pledged a sorority, went to dances, fell in love drank highballs on Howard Street on Friday afternoons with my classmates. 9. I feel in love with my step-father's young law partner. I married him and achieved my greatest accomplishments my four daughters. Bill and I lived a very conventional and happy life for almost 20 years. The sexual revolution was just starting and he decided to become a pioneer. We were divorced and I began my life as a single parent and an in-dependent woman. 10.My children have been the most important things in my life. I feel I have been blessed since they have grown into four of the finest and most interesting people I know. They are devoted mothers and have given me six grandsons and four granddaughters. Not a bad one in the bunch. They are my joy. 11. I believe in a higher power. Often I am positive God is right along side of me and other times I know there is a higher power but a picture of God doesn't come to mind. I am a Catholic and I am a church goer, because I feel God or some high power deserves recognition. I feel that going to church I am acknowledging that there is higher power and I like the discipline of paying homage to something greater than myself. Granny taught me as a child that God invites you to His house every sabbath and misses you if you're absent. I guess that little lesson stuck. 12. I feel in many ways Christians have tampered with God and Christ words. The bible was written and interpreted by many different people and races. The message is there but I'm not certain it's not somehow twisted a little to fit organized religion. For me I feel the ten commandments are a good guide to follow and as Jesus said, "Love the Lord God with your heart and soul and your neighbor as yourself. That's all you need to know." This is paraphrased, but this is the bedrock of my belief. I don't think God or Jesus said a lot of the things some Christians like to believe. I like to keep my religion simple. I can remember those things. I think it's arrogance for me to try to second guess God but I think if I practice the Golden Rule I won't be too far off the mark. I respect all religions and as long as it's not in total contrast to repect for human life and welfare. 13. I begin my career as Lois Lane. I went to work for a weekly social paper in Omaha. The paper was owned by one of the heirs to the Quaker Oats fortune, who was an Omaha resident. I covered everything from debutante balls, operas, ballets, art galleries and theater performances. It was a great life and lots of free dinners. I got to interview every famous person who came to Omaha for ten years or more including all three Fondas, Lord Snowdon, Patricia Neal, Charles Karault, Eileen Fulton, Byron White, President Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Andrew and Jamie Wyeth Yo Yo Ma and the one that most dazzled me Dr Jonas Salk. Dr Salk saved my childrens' generation from the dreaded polio that crippled or killed so many children and adults in my generation. 14. I went through a duplicate bridge phase. I am a few points away from being a Life Master. I plan to return to this when I retire completely. It's hard for me to imagine people who get bored of have nothing to do. I'll not live long enough to do all the things I want to do. I think the thing I have always had is a passion for what I undertake. 15. Politically, I can go either way. I have voted for Republicans and Democrats. In 1968 I was campaign manager for Eugene McCarthy in our town. McCarthy wasn't very popular in the rural areas of Nebraska. I was bumped by a pick-up truck at the mall for having a McCarthy sticker on my bumper. I look at this type of action as that's what I'd expect from the opposition. I don't get mad at anyone for their views, I pray they will see the error of their ways, or that if there's a better way than the one I have chosen I'll find it. I don't worry or grieve over the past just try to learn the lesson life has to offer. 16. I love animals. Dogs are my true love, but as many of you know I lost Blessed Barrymore Bass, my almost 14 year old basset. My heart hasn't healed and I don't know when I'll get another dog. Barrymore was the nicest, kindest person I know and by far the easiest to live with. I am like ruby I am petrified of birds. I almost canceled a trip to Venice when I heard a pigeon had flown up the dress of a tourist at St Mark's Square. I went to Venice in slacks and no loose fitting garments. I have never met a bird I've liked 17. I like to garden but I am either gardening all summer or I don't get into it for the season. My Pieces dual nature. It depends on which fish wins upstream or down stream for that season. 18. I am a Sunday watercolorist. Art is one of my passions and I am passionate about architecture. The French are an enigma to me. Some of the most beautiful architecture over the past but frighteningly ugly new buildings. 19. I love to read and hate house work. I don't cook anymore and if it's not microwaveable then I don't buy it. I love diet coke and unwisely drink about six a day. I am somewhat of a fatalist about death. I feel it'your time to go you'll go. Whether you're flying over the Andes in a small plane or slipping in the shower at home. It's "Appointment in Samara" (a wondrful book by John O'Hara.) 20. I am a travel addict. I have seven or eight suitcases with wheels. I will go anywhere. I have only had two or three bad experiences in all my years of globe hopping. We are going to have to start as a nation thinking globally. People are the same the world over. I talk to as many people as I can and I have friends all over the world. I think we have to realize that everyone has a feeling of patriotism for their own country. I love being an American and I'm proud to be one, but patriotism is like religion, very personal. I think we'll have to think of ourselves and our country as a piece of a small planet. We'll all have to get along to survive.  |
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