Laura Babcock-Benge:  

Hi there, Well, I'll try to catch you all up with my tumultous life. Not that you will really get the sense of it, or necessarily care too much! Nevertheless, like many of my fellow female counter parts, I too after highschool, got married to a man who was a handsome southerner. With only four credits left to graduate, I decided to get married and start my family, instead. What a rediculous choice! Not that, from this side of time, would I change that choice for the life of any of my eight children.......No, indeed,not likely. However I admit to have missed my unusual lifestyle; the animals I worked with, and the bizare musical teachings of my parents. Early in life I traveled around the US with an aunt and uncle, my mothers brother, for about 11 months. Boy how I loved to travel and see the beautiful sights, meeting people I hadn't known before, and the wonderful introduction to high culture, art, and the musical world. The New York Ballet, Swan Lake, and the Symphony orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini. I fell imediately in love with all of it!! Visiting the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, Bryces Canyon, The Little Big Horn, The Black Hills, the faces on Mt Rushmore, and the unforgettable Southern Bells on the Plantation in Georgia. Big experiences to last me a lifetime. Yet I am always yearning for more. I love people and their cultures. Often wish I had taken more language classes in school with my Latin. I love the way many languages place the verbs before the nouns and stanzas as it is conducive to my backwards thinking. I once said of myself, that I think and reason from a left handed door, or maybe just climb through some open...Expand for more