Way Corp group(s) I was in
14th
About Me
Married to Bonnie Rabideau, 8th Corps.
Daughter Renata, born 1992
Exchange Student Daughter Hsuan-Hui, (Pronounced Shun Whey), born 1991 in Taiwan
(She thought she was going to California, but West Coast also includes ALASKA!)
My Interests
bonsai, orchids. I usher at our local theater and volunteer at a large number of Gardening community functions and state fairs for the bonsai displays/ I have more than 300 trees or prospective trees and 60+ orchids, moslty miniatures mounted on cork bark and cottonwood bark. FInally got a greenhouse addition to my house this last year.
Employment or Career
FedEx instructor, hired 1986. Landscaping business, floral business. I teach bonsai throughout the state and write articles about bonsai in the far north for different publications. I travel around the country quite a bit for work, mostly the West Coast and Memphis, but I got to go to Japan this year and I am hoping to get to China next year.
Comments
Allen
I will be in Fairbanks during the week of 4/13 you going to be anywhere close
Allen
Russ
Great to hear from you. Time passes quickly. There are many who I think of often and this is a great way to reconnect. We have settled here in Nashua (17 years). I am not the greatest at this e-mail stuff because I work on the computer all day long and by the time I get home I've had enough. Perhaps this venue will change my attitude. Been married 20 years now to Alice. We have two kids - Shea (14) and David (8). I'm an architect . Great to know you are enjoying life up there in Alaska. The pictures of you and yours are great. I hit 50 last August. One of the things that matters to me as I enter the next half century is to enjoy finding folks that I've known and care about. This is a start. All the best and there will more to come.
Robert
It's was great to hear from you. It's pretty wild to have spent the year with you and Richard in a double wide in the corn fields of Ohio.. Did we have any other roomates other than Kathi or Allison? I remember you reading books late at nite and then get up the next morning and functioning in a civil manner. Many times in life it takes years to appreciate the ones that God has put in our paths. It's good to see your smiling face and ....you still have your hair....isn't God good.
God Bless You Brother
Overall, logically there's lots to be thankful for and I mentally am thankful. My heart is pissed off, not that I was abandoned (yet anyway) but for the bad decisions that got him killed. Oh well, that's part of it. I can see that part of this is getting to acceptance and I can see that phase just 'ore the horizon.
I like to "dance"; joy returns. They say people return to their "set" happines level...that should work out well for me :)
40 BELOW?