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This blog came about because of suggestions from friends. They told me it was because I have led two lives. Plus, I have a few loose screws that I should share my story. Let me start with a bit of humor – I do have some loose screws and I even know how many – four! Perhaps, I’ll come back to that later. I never thought much about their statement of having led two lives, but in 1967 I stood in St. Matthew Cemetery in Conshohocken Pennsylvania looking down at a tombstone with my wife’s name and our daughter’s name on it and my name only needing the last date.
A new grave had recently been dug and the night before I took this photo it had rained and dirt from the new grave had washed over the headstone. I did the best I could to brush away the dirt.
I remember thinking I had led a pretty complete life. I had grown up. I had gotten married and gone off to war and then had a family. I knew I couldn’t ask for much more but my life went on. I was however smart enough to take stock in where I was in life and what I wanted to do. I had been in my last year of completing a business administration degree at the University of Minnesota, Duluth when my wife got pregnant. I had met her while I was in the Army in her home was back in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania half the country away from where we were, so it was logical that we had back there for the support her family could give us. My family was living in Toronto Canada at the time. It really wasn’t an option to move there for many reasons. I quickly found a job at the University of Pennsylvania Moore School of Electrical Engineering as a technician at the Valley Forge Research Center. I was using the education the Army had provided me in electronics. The job had the added benefit that I could finish my business administration degree at the University of Pennsylvania at a lower cost. I planned to go on and get an MBA at the Wharton School. After my family’s death, I decided not to pursue a degree in business administration and to strike off in another direction. For more information go here. That is the second life I am leading. You will learn more about it in this blog as time goes on. Thanks for stopping and reading this note. Oh, if you just arrived this page first, check out my welcome page. PS: People reading my blog have suggested I should add a fact of this page. That is the fact that I am a disabled veteran. The Veterans Administration considers me permanently 100% disabled. I don’t feel that way as there’s much I can still do, but…

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