Gloria Cooper:  

Life My family is an old New England family, my ancestors came to Hingham, MA in 1637 from Hingham, Norfolk England, so in a way I feel more connected to this land than many others. Another reason is that my birthday is July 5th and my family always celebrated it on the 4th and I always felt like the whole country was celebrating it with me! I especially remember the wonderful July 4th celebrations in Lynnfield in which my cousin Brenda Rodkowski and I never failed to win at least one of the races. I married Jim Cooper in 63, and radicals that we were, we became hippies throughout the 60's. We had 3 kids by 1969, the middle one born in California in 66 and we now have 9 wonderful grandkids, the oldest, 22, born on my 40th birthday. We've lived in MA, FL, CA, AZ and NH and the last 20 yrs in Denver (our homebase) I was fortunate to find a husband like Jim. We only knew each other a week when we married in "late December 1963" as the old song goes, and because we shared such an adventurous nature we've had a wonderful, exciting life. We've seen so much and done things others only dream of doing. I went to college after the kids were in school and became a graphic designer and worked for magazines and newspapers for many years. I once worked at Disney World as a portrait artist 72-76 and my kids loved that... lots of freebies! I became a Christian in 72 after a really radical conversion from atheism and I'm still devoted to Jesus Christ. Jim came to the Lord soon after as did the rest of the family. I've always been something of a radical and I guess I still am. I fully intend to "live out loud" until I die. I have loved my life, I have enjoyed everyt...Expand for more