Phylis Reed:  

What's Up After All These Years? After High School Graduation,there were not many available options for me, even though I had always dreamed of going to college. My parents encouraged me to join the Air Force, which lasted for about 9 months because of a severly broken arm that was mangled during a winter tobaggon accident during high school. My husband went to Cambodia during the Viet Nam War. He did manage to live through the conflict, our marriage however didn't survive his post war behaviors, and it ended after five years. After remarrying, my husband and I put ourselves through college out west at The University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. We had two childen while attending college, and moved back to Michigan with our small family in tow. We wanted to strengthen family ties here in Michigan. It was worth the move back, as my parents became the world's best grandparents. After five daughters were born, and the last one was in Kindergarten, I accepted a teaching position at Galesburg-Augusta Middle School where I have been teaching special education students for twenty years. In the past few years I have had an increasing number of autistic children and cognitively impaired students. Life continually changes. Now our five children are grown, several with families of their own. My husband is preparing for retirement in one year from Stryker Corporation where he works in the prototype lab. He designs and builds new things all day. I will be teaching for two more school ...Expand for more