Karen Burkey:  

I miss Texas and am not too crazy about Minnesota. It is beautiful, the two real months of summer we have, but winter and snow come very early and stay often through April. A blizzard hit before Halloween one year and it is still discussed by Minnesotans. I never though that I would end up this far north. I worked for years for Exxon-Mobil and British Petroleum, it was a real adjustment living in Minneapolis, and of course no jobs in the oil industry! So now I spent several months a year in Florida and work selling on Ebay with an occasional...Expand for more