I am a quintessential Baby Boomer: my parents started dating after coming back to college on the GI Bill (both of them - Mom was in the Navy; Dad in the Army Engineers). [My husband Morris is not a Baby Boomer: his parents got married before WWII, and he was actually born a week before Pearl Harbor.]

I grew up in the 50's and 60's just ahead of the waves of Civil Rights and Anti-Nam activism.  My graduating class (1965) at Robert E. Lee High School was the largest ever likely to graduate from there, and the last segregated one.  The next year the school board  closed the G.W. Carver group of schools and opened Ross Sterling High, thus providing Baytown, Texas with its very own Mason-Dixon line.

I met Morris while at Valparaiso University.  He was an instructor in Psychology, and needed a student-assistant secretary who was not in any of his classes. He got me.

I was majoring in Theater, and just missing having a second major in Geography. Between scenery design and cartography I discovered Mechanical Drawing, which was not a subject normally recommended to females in the first half of the 60's, when I was still in High School. It has been a reliably marketable skill: I retired in August 2012 with 25yrs+4 months at the Ark. Highway Department and another ten years before that with assorted industries and civil engineering companies.  While with the CE's, I drew a lot of municipal plumbing (endured it) and land survey plats (adored that: if I'd been a bit more of an outdoor person and a bit less of a brand-new parent when I was working for those people, I might have opted to apprentice as a Land Surveyor.) 

AHTD taught me drafting on CADD, and love it: it came in handy when I wanted to sketch out a quilt. I may have to save-up andspring for my own set of CAD software.

Morris is a retired psychologist, and we have now moved to Mississippi to take care of his elderly and ailing relatives. There's a lot of that going around in our generation..  HIS major hobby is electronics: computers and ham radio.  Those two kind of come together in his involvement with the  Civil Air Patrol. We are both actually members; I had friends in high school who were CAP cadets and we know several other CAP members through science fiction Fandom. Computers and ham radio never really grabbed ME, but in the CAP I get to sit behind the pilot and take photos. Neither of us are pilots, though we both had a few lessons back before parenthood set-in. Never got to the solo-point, though.

We have one daughter, Sharon Amanda, born 1984.  She is a pretty sweet kid, for being a fannish bright brat (easy on brat, heavy on bright). 

Alas, she does not share my enthusiasm for sewing (though she appreciates the results -- she's just not interested in the process). She gradauted from good old Valpo in May of 2006. My brag sheet on her is here.

updated 10 November 2012