This is just a brief forward on this blog. I am writing it as a kind of memory journal. One of my kids has asked me to write things about myself and so I have decided to start writing down story either I remember or stories I remember being told to me about me by my family. I knowledge that these may not always match what someone else remembers, but as I have said these are my memories as I remember them now. When possible I will include photos of the memory or of the general time from pictures in my possession. May those that read it enjoy and coe to understand me better.