I will probably be neglecting this blog for the next few days while I travel home to Ohio for my grandmother’s funeral. She was 80 years old and a remarkable woman. She grew up during the Great Depression, was valedictorian of her high school and had 12 children.

After her youngest daughter graduated from high school, she followed her to college to fulfill her own dream of continuing her education. I can’t say enough good things about what she meant to me or her family. She was probably more technologically in tune than either of my parents. Strike that, she definitely was.

She kept up with my work at the Sanford Herald online and let me know she was proud of me. She also had a habit of sending old pictures she dug up of all of her grandchildren. Below is one such picture, taken I assume when I was about 4 years old with two of my siblings.

That's me on the left; my sister Alyson is in the center, and my brother Paul is on the right