Laura Erxleben:  

Life Married for 39 years, was an educator in Texas and Virginia for 30 years. I retired May 2008, but I did not stop working. I own a small business called Teacher's Emporium. We sell educational supplies. I am, also, providing services such as tutoring, piano lessons, parent consultations, and assessment services. I was an educational diagnostician the last four years of my first career. Attended SWTSU (Texas State), UWF, and TAMUK (Texas A&I) to obtain a masters degree+40 hours. I play the piano for my church and work in the children's department on Wednesday evenings. We built a new house before I retired. Smaller than our other homes (I do not want to clean house for the rest of my life). We built a pool and I spend a great deal of time working in the yard - I inherited part of my grandmother's green thumb. We went to Florida this winter to spend a week. We visited with some of my husband's old Navy buddies who have retired and live in Florida year round. Even in the winter, Florida is beautiful and like South Texas has plenty of sunshine. I have to be extremely careful thes...Expand for more