My grandfather was the captain of the Kent cricket team. His picture was on trading cards in England (similar to baseball cards in the US). He actually has a website. He is Frank Woolley. He played for England and was featured on the BBC program “This Your Life.” When you are at an old hotel in England, you get really good service if you are related to Frank.

He played in South Africa, Australia. My mom went around the world three times by the age of six. He had a big cricket school that got bombed during the war. He used to have Indian royalty come and stay because they wanted to learn from the best. He had a line of his own cricket balls. He has a place in London that is named after him. He has a bronze bust of him in the British Art Museum.

We have tons of memorabilia.

WE MOVE TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY: AMERICA

My dad was brought out here to work on the original NASA moon shot projects. He worked with IBM, Control Data and a lot of other big computer companies. He spent more time here in the US than in England. We moved over here lock, stock and barrel.

We moved to Minnesota. If that isn’t a big change…here (on the West Coast of the US), you have more English influence with Carmel. But going to Minnesota! We went to Apple Valley near Roseville.

I was 19 when we did the big move. Everything was foreign. The food was foreign, the stores were foreign. My mom and I went grocery shopping in heels and coats and gloves, purses. People we saw here were in hair curlers, with scarves on, shorts, tennis shoes.

We said: “Oh my gosh, where have we come to?”

It was totally different. The culture shock was incredible. We loved the winters, however, and we got into snowmobiling, horses, western saddles, Tennessee Walking Horses. It was so diverse compared to home. The horses were different, too. Paints. Appaloosas.