Name: Marji Nash Maiden:
Speece
Personal narrative!
I've gone full circle and again live in
Life with the Air Force was an adventure. I originally
met Doug when I was a history/government teacher at Yokota Air Base High School
in
Once upon a time I had running-a-marathon as a personal goal. It's still on my "to-do" list (a half-marathon is my longest distance). Doug is the long-distance, trail-runner in our family.
No children and for 16 years B'ham and Bama (the only 2
kittens in the litter) were our babies. B'ham is still with us and turns 19
years old in September.
*Dad died in April 2002 and my mom lives in her own apartment at
A
A real downtown with a real main street: banks on the 2
corners, Woolworth's with a lunch counter, clothing and shoe shops, hardware
and appliance stores, drug stores and creameries with soda fountains, gift and
jewelry and music stores, barber shops and the Rialto Theater (and a couple of
bars with very dark windows). For years we bought everything we needed in
downtown
Feeling safe.
Walking or riding my bike everywhere -- then getting my driver's license on my 16th birthday.
Elementary school (there were 4 schools) Spring Music Festival and the spring track meet.
Everybody seemingly knowing everybody else (and back then that was a very comforting feeling).
The median down the center of
I have such good memories of growing up in