Gregory Quist:  

Life I raised my boys telling them, "You're becoming what you are going to be. If you don't practice now, then you won't be what you're supposed to be when you get there" Their mother distained my philosopy but now every time they open their mouths she has to declare, "You sound just like your Daddy!" Chattanooga, Tennessee was a beautiful place to rear those Southern gentlemen. School My extracirricular activity with the Saint Paul Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps from 1964 through 1968 occupied a good deal of my time. That activity had a distinctly positive influence on my behavior as an adolescent. Victoria Kalfka was an underclassmember, and to date I have not been able to thank her for the memory of her priceless smile. As overly attractive as she was, and as shy as I was, all I could do was to imagine that she would have given me an audience. Nancy Clark probably does not remember us making out in the front seat of a classmate's car as a group of us were joy riding one evening. As more memories come back I will add to this. I am one grateful guy that I tended always to err on the side of relational restraint. The woman that I was faithful to until and through 25 years of marriage is the only one who was any suspicions about my fidelity; but then whose fault is it that I married a southerner in order to perpetuate the civil war? Workplace What did I not do to make ends meet while my ex and I recreated the Civil War? It took twenty-five years for her to delcare herself the winner! The sub-cultural conflict never went away either. Work almost always had a sense of warfare about it. I bore the pain of relating to one woman long enough to mature and she didn't like the finished product. Oh, well. She still inspires me to write and...Expand for more