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Catherine Browning McFarlane: One Hundred Years of Lochside Great Grandfather McFarlane, Jake, came from what he called ’the waister-maist hoose (Wester-most house) in Linlithgow’ (on the Forth). He started a shoemaker shop in Kilsyth, got married and took ... |
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Elizabeth: Triumphs and Tragedies i have lost 2 people in my life i cared about so much. one is my great grandmother she was old and very sick but i was so close to her ... |
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Debra Juhl Jones-Miller: for my mom...
A Million little moments...
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A New Beginning: Triumphs and Tragedies My triumphs and tragedies lead me to believe that these things that I faced in life made me the person that I am today. Stronger, willing, able, determined, acheiver, and ... |
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charlotte gibbs: I survived. (CML) Chronic Myleoid Lukemia I went through a period in my life full of happiness. Just meet a wonderful man. Marry life was great, 6 months after we were married i became pregant,. I had ... |
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Florence Louise Light Manning Flynn: My Six Walking Tall Children "I have lived a good life full of great happening and love ... |
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MARVA:
When my uncle jake pass away was a sad moment for me , one minute he was fine the next, being put in a home and then the funeral,My auntcora , ... |
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Corrina Cop Rain McFarlane: The Lakota Mystery It seemed like it was a kind of funny, life on ... |
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Anita:
In 1975 I gave birth to the most wonderful child a mom could have, |
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Betty Endrek: I Lose My Husband to Depression My husband came out of the Navy in 1945 and then he went back to Findlay College and completed his degree and he worked most of the time for Ohio Oil ... |
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Dorothy Gibson: I Ironed Clothes For Other People Bill was from Poteau, Oklahoma and it was just a little town. Everyone was poor then and Bill’s father worked for the railroad. His mom and dad wanted to get out ... |
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John Matson: I consider that I have had a superb life. It would be foolish for me to try and pick out only one joyous period. I consider that I have had a superb life. I met ... |
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Faye Stone: My Son Nearly Drowns, My Parents Pass Away I was over at my girlfriend’s house. It was in the afternoon. I had Christian with me. My mother helped me when Christian was born. He was very important to her. ... |
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Virginia Congdon Robertson: Losing a Son in a Tragic Accident, then Two Decades of Dealing with a Sick Husband Harold was ill for twenty years. He was on the dialysis machine almost fourteen years. We did it at home for twelve years, and then we had a center here in ... |
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Dorothy Zeyen: Louis and I Explored the World Together But we came back pretty soon, you know, after we explored that part of the world and lived there and all. And we came back and we came back and we ... |
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Zora Thompson: HELEN AND DIANE SURVIVE A CLOSE BRUSH WITH DEATH HELEN HAD DOUBLE PNEUMONIA AND WAS TAKEN TO McKEESPORT HOSPITAL. HER DOCTOR WAS DR. LAPSLEY. THE SURGEON THERE OPENED HER BACK AND HER LUNGS WERE DRAINED. I REMEMBER MY MOTHER GETTING ... |
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Than Bischoff: I Fight and Win a 20-Year Battle with Alcoholism My mother ... |
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Scott Bloom: Professional and Personal Highs and Lows The first big win I can think of was passing my CPA exam on the first shot. The second win was the lack of getting Lori to move in with me. |
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Ruth Schimpl-Gremling: My First Husband Died Young When Bill had his heart attack; you were in college then weren’t you? And Mike was married, and Debbie was married and was out in New Mexico. Bill was painting the ... |
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Ruth Sampson: At the End of the Week, 25 Cents was a Lot of Money Well, it was rough when we were first married. We did good sometime to have a quarter at the end of the week when we were first married because Eli and ... |
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Ron Lyons: I Lose a Daughter Our youngest son as I say is building homes down and Carmel. Our oldest son is living just below Monterey and works for a publishing company. He is the treasure of ... |
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Robert Hutchinson: Hard Lessons in Business and Life When I first started working I got a job that required an architect. So I told the lady that I was an architect. In my heart and mind I could do ... |
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Robert Ede: Onward and Upward Nearly All the Way One low point was when our boy Brian died. Other than that I didn’t have any low points. It was all onward and upward. And in the meanwhile I made a ... |
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Robert Berryessa: My Father Suffers Life-Threatening Electrical Burns ... |
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Rikki Willett: I Fly Out To Help Nurse Victims of Katrina Tragedies? My dad’s death. He was 42, and he had a sarcoma in his lower back. Because he was working with appliances we thought it was a simple back strain. He ... |
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Rick James: I Lose a Generation of Friends in the AIDS Epidemic We used to talk about getting all of our friends together, but that’s when the AIDS epidemic started. Everybody died. Everyone in Los Angeles died with the exception of one friend. ... |
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Richard Magen: "Hey Mister. Are You a Bum?" But my ... |
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Ralph Hempfling: “Life Was Not Too Exciting, I Guess” I joined IBM and that was probably the big thing in my life. Of course at the time you didn’t really think about that even being a lifetime job or a ... |
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Ralph Appio: We used to race midget racecars. We used to race midget racecars. One time we won the nationals and I was so happy. It was in Ventura. We had just gotten back from Tucson. There were 103 ... |
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Phil Camacho: Nothing is Going to Be Easy Nothing amusing in my life! (Laughs) I’ll tell you, life was a challenge from the beginning and it is until the end. To me, a person has got to realize that ... |
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Peggy McGovern: I Miss Getting Tenure I liked teaching. I still hear from students that I had. I like clinical teaching better than theory but I had 150 students to lecture to at USF. I didn’t like ... |
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Norma Starr: I Lose a Son in a Construction Accident Then Bob, he is the one; he’s gone now, but he was the one that was injured so much. He liked to coon hunt and we had dogs and he’d take ... |
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Nancy Tucker: We Wrestled with Some Tough Problems Both of my parents had Alzheimer’s and my father had Parkinson’s. My mother had Alzheimer’s for the last eight and a half years of her life. Many people who have it ... |
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Bozitza Popovich: WEATHERING DEPRESSION, FLOODS AND HARD TIMES IN 1936 THE RIVERS IN PENNSYLVANIA FLOODED AND IT CAUSED TURTLE CREEK AND SURROUNDINGS TO ALSO FLOOD.MY FATHER AND I GOT INTO OUR SEDAN AND DROVE TO MY GRANDMOTHER’ S AND ... |
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Bob Stahl: What Daisy’s Life and Death Taught me about Love, and about Myself I was in the monastery for close to nine years. While I was there I was revisiting the mindfulness of death meditation which is a very big practice for me. About ... |
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Bertine Hancock: I’ve Lived in the Best of Times Well, I’ve had a lot of – I’ve lived in the best of times and have a lot of good memories. There were worst and bad times but I don’t have ... |
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Bernie Miller: 60 Years after the end of WWII, I Receive a Wonderful Letter I’ve gone from China to India and back on a ten hour flight and logged nine at hours of instrument time. You never see outside the plane, but still you are ... |
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Bernard "Barney" Bricmont: In one sad instant, I lose my wife of 31 years I went into shave I came ... |
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Bequia Cooper: How My Mentally Ill Father Taught Me to be Independent One thing in particular happened when I was nine years old. My father was extremely mentally ill. He came in and out of our lives depending on whether or not he ... |
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Barry Morris Brooks: Starting Life on the Party Path When I first got into the business, it is sad that I took that party path and not the more focused path. That set me up for how my plan was. ... |
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Anne Phipps: Beating a Brain Tumor with Horses and a Stray Puppy At that time, I go very ill. I got this brain tumor. It was sitting on my pituitary gland. I had brain surgery. That changed everything. I was 20. I had ... |
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Angelo Grova: I Risk Everything to Open My Own Art Studio So I left Art School Santa Cruz because I couldn’t afford it anymore. Rent was way too high. I moved the facility here. I started cleaning up the inside. The floors ... |
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Analydia Scoggins: My Gentle Red-Haired Howard Dies of Cancer My husband Howard died in 2003. He passed away quickly. He was diagnosed in June of 2003 and died in August. It was cancer of the esophagus. It’s better for him. ... |
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Aldo Cooper: Two Near-Death Experiences In many ways my trip down the Selway River taught me a lot. At some point, when you are so good it’s something you get so cocky that you need a ... |
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Florence Hunter: I Outlast Three More Husbands Then someone I ... |
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Elnora Taylor: While on the Road, My Stepfather Abandons Us From Texas we traveled to Roswell New Mexico. At that point, my stepfather left and went back to Oklahoma. I think he went back to his girlfriend in Oklahoma City. ... |
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Elizabeth Lucille Rozelle: Two Experiences Cause me to Ponder the Fragility of Human Life My youngest son lost a baby, you know, full-stage ... |
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Edward John McInerney: My Patents are a Triumph The patents were definitely triumphs for me. Also, I hiked Half Dome in Yosemite twice. Once with my daughter and once with my wife and daughter. When my parents died, it ... |
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Eddie Rojas: Dad Helped Bail Me out of An Early Mistake Well, I don’t make many mistakes like that you know. I make one stupid mistake like most of the young guys that do mistakes stupid like that. I went up in ... |
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Walta Lou Wilcox: We Lost Our Oldest Son in a Highway Accident We lost our son, our oldest son. He was a senior in high school and he had hitchhiked on spring break out to Colorado and coming home a truck driver picked ... |
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Denise Morra: The Loss of My Brother Was a Turning Point in my Spirituality In 1976 by brother died. I felt that this event was a real impetus for me to leave the church. I mentioned that it was Texas culture and children’s gymnastics, but ... |
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Debra Hummel: I Lose The Love of My Life There was one family named ... |
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Jeremy Lezin: What Would do if you Knew you Could not Fail? Probably the biggest tragedy is my marriage. I’m divorced as of three years ago. I think that’s a tragedy although we are both happier. I am now remarried and very, very ... |
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Darwin Hintz: Our Daughter is the High Point of Our Life I suppose that the biggest highlight in my life, and in my wife’s, was the ... |
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Chris Beaudoin: Losing My Father, and a Life Partner That’s a difficult one because my highs and lows are personal things. The high last year it would have been flying with all of my seven brothers and sisters to go ... |
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John Donovan: Alcoholism: I Hit Bottom, then Start a Long Road to Recovery The bad part came when my drinking got worse during this time. The years from 1972 through 1979 were not a good time for my family. United airlines were the first ... |
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Jim McGovern: Thank You for Loving our Mother; Thank you for Being a Good Father I’m most proud of having a happy marriage, five kids. My oldest son just retired as a full colonel in the Air Force. All my kids have been very successful except ... |
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Mickey Frazer: Making sure People Got Paid I don’t recall anything of a great nature that affected me for a long time. I just kind of grew up like a horse would. |
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Michael Popovich: A 1967 VISIT TO JUGOSLAVIA: THE FAMILY FARM IS IN RUINS MY FATHER NEVER GOT BACK TO THE OLD HOME UNTIL 1967. I BELIEVE HIM WHEN HE SAID HE CRIED AT THE SIGHT OF THE DEVASTATED PROPERTY. HIS OLDER BROTHER LIVED THERE ... |
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Mel Wilcox: I Quit Drinking Well, I think a big turning point was when I quit drinking. I think that was a big one. I never knew my billfold could get so thick, if you understand ... |
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Mattie Leeds: Getting Over the Failures When I am making an oboe reed I spend days ... |
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Matt Cocchi: Life’s Wins and Losses, Both Private and Shared The biggest low was my father’s death. It really wrecked my family apart. We were a very close family and now half of us don’t even talk to each other. That ... |
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Mary Margaret Donovan: I love to travel anywhere Highs were getting married, having the kids. Lows was the alcoholism. I enjoy my work. I have enjoyed it more in the last few years. I love to travel anywhere. We used to do a lot of camping. We did travel-camping throughout the Southwest. Then we got an RV. We went to Europe a few times. We saw a lot of England and Germany. I like to visit cities and museums. |
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Marjorie Hook: I lost a son almost a year ago. And that’s been rough, and we went like everybody else having good times and bad and our family never went hungry either, so, and my kids grew up to be nice ... |
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Mardi Brick: Political Victories, and a Loss I was on surveying as one of the five counsel members ... |
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Madonna Wagner: At Age 80, I Learned to Fly So, ... |
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Larry Coppes: Our Twins Are Badly Burned, but Survive Actually, I have to back up a bit. I got married the first time while I was in the service. As soon as I got out of the service she didn’t ... |
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Kathleen Gambogi: One of Many Lifetime Highs: Promoting Concerts We’ve had some issues with our son. This is mostly a part of Bob’s story. I’m glad to say that he’s now doing well, and that’s all I want to say ... |
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Juanita Marie Schuck-Harris: Losing Two Siblings was the Hardest Thing I’ve Faced The hardest thing was when my siblings died. I had two older siblings who died. The sister I was closest to was younger than I when she died. I think that ... |
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John Urbanski: The Peaks and Valleys of Being an Entrepreneur As an entrepreneur I can give you every peak and valley that comes with owning your own business. We’ve been extremely successful, and we’ve been less than successful. A couple of ... |
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John Rialson: I’ve been pretty Lucky I’ve been pretty lucky. As I get older, friends are passing away. Fortunately, I haven’t known anyone has died violently. My dad passed away six years ago just before my first ... |
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Marilyn Patton: I Take Pride in What My Students Accomplish My greatest triumphs have been taking pride in watching what my students have accomplished. It feels so good to have ... |
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