About

Ok, for everyone who has been pestering me about it, I am now on Facebook. So, when do I actually become cool? I am interested in almost everything and enjoy a wide variety of activities and people. My life in the beautiful Appalachian Mtns. has caused me to grow in my appreciation for the simple things of life: true friendship, honesty, laughter, children at play, good food & music, and beautiful mountain vistas. God, family, country, and friends are my focus and education has been my life-long career.

Education

• UVa & Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
• Clinch Valley & Milligan College
• UvA
• Nickelsville High School

Favorite saying

• "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him, might be saved! (John 3:16 & 17) In 1984, George Orwell wrote, "Who controls the past controls the future.” History is written backward but lived forward. Those who know the end of the story can never know what it was like at the time. --C.V. Wedgwood, British historian The one thing man learns from studying history is that man learns nothing from history." George Bernard Shaw What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt As they say in Texas, you can put lipstick and earrings on a pig, and call her Peggy Sue, but it's still a pig. Next time is always different for people who refuse to learn from history. A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it’s about learning how to dance in the rain. You can have anything you want in life if you just help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. Ivern Ball "If you torture the data severely enough it will confess to anything." Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.~Abraham Lincoln What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson The key is not to prioritize what's on the schedule, but to schedule your priorities.~Stephen Covey Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for...~Joseph Addison "