Cindy Sterling:  

A lot of water is over the dam since days of yore at Dillon Elementary when first grade girls played horses under the tutelage of Martha Daw, talking in Pig Latin at recess, or when we slid down the back hill in the snow on old, metal lunch trays, and boys chased girls. I'm no longer the quiet, geeky girl who always had her nose stuck in a book during days at West M, or the girl Billy Weiser came up behind to roll her knee socks down around her ankles, or editor of the Tornado Times -- dang! I wish I was that skinny and carefree again. :) I went off to college after graduating from West Muskingum High School's Class of '70, first at OUZ, working in the Library part-time and participating in University Chorus (Jerry G. would have liked that although we didn't have lovely ivory blazers and ribbon ties!). I married a local guy and two years later headed to Ohio State University to major in English -- I hoped to actually go to Library School for my Master's Degree, but alas! The well-laid plans of mice and men sometimes go astray. After receiving my B.A. in English from OSU, I ended up moving to McArthur (the least populous county in Ohio, a far cry from the seething, metropolitan area of Columbus -- culture shock!) where my husband had his first job for three years. I ended up commuting to OU in Athens to get a teaching degree before eventually moving back to the area where I grew up. I have been teaching here at one o...Expand for more