Luanne Henthorn:  

It has been too long to remember who I might have been back in 1974. Certainly I was young and ready to be out of school. I hadn't thought about my future and what I wanted from it only that I was ready for anything. I had several jobs before I met my future life. Nothing worth bragging about. Then in September of 1978, I met a man who would change everything and some of it was good and some of it wasn't. We married in June of 1979 and within half a year, we were living in San Antonio partly because he got a better job offer and partly to help us both grow up some, away from family influence. It didn't help. We moved back to Colorado, in with my parents and with me expecting our first. A few months before Jamison was born we moved to Broomfield and enjoyed being parents. The following year, we came into some money (my husbands father died), not much, but enough to buy a small house in Aurora, not far from Lowry Air Force Base. Remember Lowry? Two more children, Alaina and Spencer were born and still we found ourselves struggling to understand our roles in life. He was constantly trying to find that right job that would make him a lot of money as a programmer. And I tried hard to be a wife and mother without losing who I was as a creative individual (crafts). It was decided after my mother died in 1989, that should he find a job outside of Colorado, that we would move and move we did in 1993 when the Mississippi River decided it was time to flood. I packed up our household into a semi-tra...Expand for more