Anita Remembers

About the Book

Once Anita realized she was not a favorite child like her older sister, she was determined to make herself special in any ways she could. She played actively outdoors (climbing trees was a good one), which her sister couldn’t do. She triumphed in tricks on her bicycle until her mother saw her and threatened to take her bike away. She loved playing with neighbor boys in their sports, and they liked it too. When she transferred to a new school and found it incredibly hard, she decided to stand out and be among tops in all her classes. And she did. She captained the girls’ baseball team, and she hit that ball hard. She was getting older now, and found money counted. She began to baby-sit and loved it. She had more jobs than she could do sometimes, and the summer she was 15, she took care of two infants (1 18 months and one 9 months} for two weeks straight while their parents went out of town. The babies loved her and were so good that there were no troubles. She already knew she wanted babies of her own!
Her sister treated her nicely, but kept her status carefully.
Anita also had her first real date at 15 with a college student and his new bright red Pontiac convertible. She began to think her dreams of marriage and babies were coming true. Even before her sister’s!
If you would like to know what can lie ahead, please read my book.

About the Author

I am 92 + years old. I have always enjoyed writing, so in 2000 when I retired with my beloved lifetime husband in Kerrville, Texas and we built a beautiful home on a hill with a glass wall facing the Hill Country hills, I decided to write about my life so that my children and the generations that follow will learn something about life as it was during my own years, the good and the not-so-good. After my children were on their own, I worked at NASA Space Center and received a National Manned Flight Awareness Honoree Award with a flight to Florida and the nighttime launch of a Shuttle. My husband got to go too, and we spent a week there. It was spectacular! I didn’t write constantly because we spent many years in our retirement doing exciting things that took us to many places around the nation and the world. We have always, and still are, active in church. God has blessed us many times, and we are so grateful.