I love life, and treasure it each day, because I have come so very close to losing it, more times than I can count! That's not to say that I don't get grumpy, so I've chosen as this site's avatar the photo of me taken by my husband on my 60th birthday. It was a day I celebrated with joy because so many physicians said I would never live past the age of 40! It felt good to thumb my nose at all the doom-sayers! I have been married since 1975 to the most wonderful husband on the planet. He and I were given the gift of three sons, one of whom has been gifted...more