All of us have exceptional lives and harbor talents that need just a touch of desire to discover and nurture. I was fortunate to grow up during the era of banana seat bicycles, five cent gum cards, ten cent sodas, Creepy Crawlers, metal lunchboxes and the space missions of the 1960's. All I ever wanted to be was an astronaut, but was too young for Apollo and too old for Space Shuttle, so it was not to be. Being in a military family, we were occasionally relocated, lastly near the end of my fifth grade year from Carlisle, PA. to Sand Springs, OK. Upon becoming more...more
