Cherish your family for they are your treasure,

A storehouse of riches....wealth beyond measure.

My parents

Carl 1919-1986

Elaine 1928-1983

If I Had My Life To Live Over

I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I've been in this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would take more trips. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.
You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
I've been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a rain coat and a parachute. If I had to do it all over again, I would travel lighter than I have.
If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.

July 1975
Nadine Starr

(this was a newspaper clipping of my mom's)

I'm the middle child in a family of five. I'll add

pictures after they give me permission...

We're scattered from Nebraska to New York,

but still very close in our hearts.

home

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