Paula Norris:  

Life and School ....to the students at MontgomeryHighSchool where I attended for 1 year in my 9th grade year, I thank you all these years later for making the new kid on the block feel welcome.... I have great memories of that 1 year I attended MHS starting in the fall of 1963 & then leaving & moving back to Houston where I had moved From, the following summer of 1964...we moved there after buying property down RabonChapelRd from my cousins, Gary & PamAudas in 1962. My Dad built what was intended to be a wknd place, but as the CubanMissileCrisis heated up through those years, it became more evident that we needed to get out of Dodge Houston...I got a horse during that year&even rode it to school one day what was my mother thinking , finally learned sentence diagramming in MrsMarySue's class, cook in MrsSteger's & algebra in MrsPhillips'...the camaraderie of the small group dynamics was just what I needed at that time in my life. Had to move back to Houston end of that 9th grade year & leave all my girlfriends and boyfriends Floyd & RobertO and finished in January 1966 at my old school SamHoustonHS, on the northside near the airport. 40 plus years later thanks so much for your kindness and memory-making! I left SamHoustonHS in January of 1966 and immediately started classes at TexasWomen'sU in Denton, with a predecided major in my passion art/advertising. January of 1969, I moved back to Houston & started working for the Chronicle with my byline and picture, TheTalkOfTheTown with PaulaNorris.....a little Sunday advertising Shopper'sColumn made up of lots of little lady place ads that came out every Sunday in the Women'sSection. I am now permanently immortalized in the DowntownHoustonPublicLibrary on 3 years worth of microfilm. I sold and wrote that column fell in love, married & left in March of 1972 to give birth to my 1st son, Shelby. Anson, my 2nd manchild, came in 1976. I did the MomThingy for the next 20 years or so & always had some little TableTopEnterprise job of sorts going on the side...cake decorating, sewing for the public, complete makeup, sales & layout of the yearbook for my son's private school in exchange for tuition, church secretary & my most long-lasting enterprise, a merchandising job in grocery stores for HallmarkCards. ...as in HS, I still work in lots of art techniques with EverythingCreative & have probably dabbled with all the major mediums, including 2 of my most recent, making and selling jewelry & quilts. My style in jewelry leans toward Edwardian & colored glass crystals, and my quilts contain a lot of abstract stylization of traditional blocks. I meet most Monday nites w/a group of ladies & we make and hash over our quilts & ultimately give them away to various church members & nursing homes. For the last almost-20 yrs I've traveled international with my husband and his oilfield job as a teacher training instructor for BakerHughes England & my favorite, AberdeenScotland....Canada,France,Belgium, Holland, Norway & November2004, CelleGermany. Just got back from Aberdeen about a month ago in July, 2005...coming much too close this time to the Thursday bombings in London. We were down in Birmingham traveling thru PrincessDiana's estate near the bomb factory & perpetrator were arrested just the weekend before that Thursday, and then in the air on the way home via Amsterdam Friday afterwards... While John works and teaches his drilling mud classes all day, I'm on my own & out & about to the sites. I've become so comfortable going to Scotland over the years, that I now drive up & down the coast stopping in at castles & my passion, charit...Expand for more