Finish my sentence...

I hate feeling cold and the cold makes my body ache

I like winter because.....

I would love having a shore home because the most wonderful thing in the world to me is walking, walking, walking on the beach.

The house I grew up in was.....

When I was a little girl, my sister and I shared a room (up the stairs and to the right). One window overlooked the backyard and my dad's big garden, the other overlooked our elderly neighbor's house and if you looked down the street you could see the street light, where on summer evenings 'big kids' would gather on their bikes and visit and flirt with each other. The other neat thing about the room was there was a little door that led to a crawl space under the eaves. We put a crib mattress and lamp in there and, on rainy days, I would read and daydream in that cozy space.

Some of the fun games we played when I was a girl were......

English because I loved to write.

I liked school because....

any age pre-cancer.......

If I won a luxury car I would choose a .........

1953 Plymouth Belvedere

My first love's name was.......

yikes, I have a couple! Going in chronological order, my second grade teacher was young, pretty, wore red high heels, and was so excited to teach us new things, especially about the Solar System.

My favorite teacher when I was older was.....

anything/everything to do with technology.....very much feel like an immigrant!

Speaking of immigrants, my ancestors came here from.....

the mid-to-late 1800s

My most interesting ancestor......

one brother, one sister

I really need to clean out....

a loving family

The best Christmas/holiday present I ever got was....

celebrating cause it's over...bah humbug

I don't like xmas because it's.......

All the things my kids made...very old now..

I stopped putting up a tree because......

My uncle who was captured and escaped twice. He needs to write a book.

Ruth, I like your question so I am asking it again...a veteran I should thank is...

they represent what is best in our country.

Ann, which war? He really should write a book. A friend of mine's cousin, who served in Vietnam, just wrote a book for his family & friends. It is pretty cheap to self-publish, and he wanted them to know what had happened to him. It is an extremely interesting and moving read.

The veteran I know who is closest to me, served....