Glenda Collier:  

Life Hi, whoever reads this. I and my family live on a farm in Rainier, Oregon, near the Columbia River and between Astoria and Portland, Oregon. My husband was raised in Boise, Idaho and has travelled all over the world. I have 2 grown children, a nearly 20 yr. old daughter, and I'm raising a 9 yr. old granddaughter. My son John lives in Corvallis, Oregon with his family. My daughter Tara is an artist and teacher and studied in Sienna, Italy, and now lives in St. Charles, Missouri with her family. If you'd like to see a recent picture of me and my 6 mos. grandson, look up the Corvallis Gazette Times, 8/8/05, and we made the front page--that's my 2nd time to make front page with a grandchild. I helped deliver 2 of my grandchildren. School - I went to Sam Houston State on the highest piano performance scholarship and did not finish, then between children, I went to San Jacinto Jr. College, then University of Houston, then when I moved here, I received a B.S. degree in Humanities (music, language arts, social sciences) at Oregon State University, also between children. Profession - teach private piano lessons out of my home and I volunteer at schools. I've written a few things. We visit St. Charles, Missouri often and Maui, Hawaii. My most favorite trip was to Maui, Hawaii a couple of yrs. ago, our family stayed with a Hawaiin family--the mom is a hula dancer in Lahaina, Maui, and teaches hula at the civic center and she has children the ages of my children, it was a great trip. There is a joke about people being late in Maui as the...Expand for more