A Little About Me

I was born in a very small town in Michigan. I remember growing up knowing that the local election held little important. If you won the Republican Primary, you could count on winning the election. So regardless of the years I was a registered Democrat or Independent, I'm a "Cradle Republican."

On my father's side, my grandfather was a State Representative for seven sessions. Also, he owned five small town newspapers at various times. My grandmother wrote for the papers and raised her family. Later my father took the papers over and sold them to a syndicated chain. Both of my father's parents had graduated from college with two year degrees, quite an accomplishment in the late 1800's.

My mother came from a farming family. As a child, I can't remember a time when either grandmother wasn't working and both grew huge gardens. The older I get the more I appreciate my mother's mother, Grandma Berger. She was a Godly woman with little formal education but very wise.  

For a while during World War II my mother, a Registered Nurse, was a "Rosie the riveter," actually she was a welder in a war plane. Some of my mother's ancestors settled in America in the early 1600's and two of our ancestors fought in the American Revolution and one in the War of 1912..

My parents were divorced when I was a toddler. At age six I contracted polio which left me with a disability and a "can do" attitude. I had two children in my late teens and a divorce a few years later. At the age of 22 I was a broke single mother and a freshman in college. I graduate in 1966 a broke single mother and in debt. It took me years and a few threats from my debtors to get my student loans paid off. I had people tell me how lucky I was to have a good education that allowed me to procure good jobs. Luck may have played a part, the luck of being raised with hard working role models and the gift of learning from God was far more important. That said, I have little tolerance for those who will not take personal responsibility.

After two college degrees and 30 plus years in the corporate world as a hybrid Packaging Engineer/ System Analyst, I retired for medical reasons. Not one to kick back, for several years I pursued more creative venues making and selling handcrafted jewelry and rather unusual craft items. Also, I buy and sell Native American crafted jewelry. 

For eight years I've been a part of Chuck Missler's Koinonia-Institute, an Online Christian Think Tank. My goal is to become a better Christian apologist.

liberals. I now spend most of my time studying the Holy Bible with an online Christian Think Tank to hopefully become a better Christian apologist. .