Donna Edge:  

Oopss....wrong dates. Cajun Bag should say 85 - 86 - that is when I lived in wonderful South Louisiana...I was still in North Louisiana in the 70's. Lets see. I live in Bakersfield, CA, which is not, according to popular belief the armpit of California. We are up over a half million population, having almost tripled in the 20 years since I came here. I spent the first 32 years of my working life in the accounting field, as a staff accountant, CFO, or office manager, then in 2004, changed direction. I am now a claims adjuster for workers compensation, licensed by the state of CA, and spend my days in a cubicle, working for the Supt of Schools, handling cases for 97 different school districts up and down the state. Always different, just when you think you have seen all life has to offer, there is something new on a claim. Happily married to Jack, mother of 38 year old, Renee, and grandmother to an 8 year old, Kennedy, and her twin sisters, Mason & Tristen, who are 6. Life doesn't get any better. We are lu7cky enough to have had the foresight to live on 3 acres - but the city is growing up around us. Jack grows his vegetables on the back 40 and gives to the neighbors, just like we were in the 'boro and my Granddaddy did all his life. Life has a way to remind all of us that we are growing older...just lost my father last month, came home and saw some of the teachers I had in school, and then i look in the mirrow, and I am older now than they were when they were teaching me. but then they don't really look that much older, do they? Seems life was a lot simpler when we were growing up. but with the state of the economy, it may soon be that way again. i look at all the things that my granddaughters...Expand for more