William Miller Jr.:  

Life Everything considered, my life is just fine right know. This December, I will have married to the same sweet wonderful woman Beth, for 39 years and she has blessed me with three, now grown children; Janie, 37 years old, Andrew, soon to be 33 years old and Lacey, 27 years old. We have lived in 6 different states since I originally went to work for Ashland Oil, now Marathon Petroleum LLC since the merger 12 years ago. With the exception on one year when we lived in Tennessee on a special assignment, the last 26 years have been in the State of Minnesota. We live in the Twin City suburb of Lakeville not to far from the Mall of America, the largest shopping center in the country. It's quite the tourist attraction and during the Christmas season, it's not unusual for over 200,000 people to be in the Mall, but not me because I hate crowds! Minnesota is a nice place to live but because of the politics and winter weather, a place I don't plan to retire. We have had winters so cold that my car tires have actually frozen to the pavement, a glass of warm water can be thrown out of the front door and turn to ice crystals before hitting the ground and tears can freeze in your eyes while shoveling snow if not wearing goggles. Other than that, it's a great time when the snow covers the ground from November to mid May. We have a very short golf season, June through September but it's long enough since I had back surgery in 1997 after falling on my driveway while snow blowing my driveway. I still try and play when I can and there are a number of great courses here in spite of the short season. My Mother and Father are both gone, my Dad lived with us for 4 years until h...Expand for more