Rosalie Goodwin:  

I am in Texas with my three children and grandchildren. It is wonderful being a grandparent. Being so close to their home makes it easy to have them in my life on a daily basis. I have the opportunity to lend a hand and edify their lives and visa versa. After High School I enrolled in Solano Community College and attended two sememsters. I had fun playing Powder Puff Football and became a Star Player--it was a lot of fun and having a bunch of my friends on the sidelines hooping and hollering as they rattled cow bells gave me added spirit to give it my all. It was a blast---mudd and all! After community college I went off to Portland, Oregon to attend Columbia Christian College. It was such a wonderful experience despite flunking out. More happened at C.C.C. in one year than my four years at Armijo Joint Union High---no longer the shy Wall Flower. I was in a stage play, worked in the kitchen to give me pocket change and book store money, got tagged as dorm hair stylist and make-up artist, raided the boys dorm with some friends and got put on weekend detention and missed the Big Beach Fun Weekend (we also broke into the boys bathroom and greased all of the toliet seats and webbed it all over with string, escaped through a side window in broad daylight and didn't get caught)I ate my first bite of chocolate after being several years without(Only that once--allergies---and I didn't die!), joined a Sorority, was nominated Home Coming Queen, fell in love (exchange of class rings--so cool) and flunked out because I was too busy with other things, and doing my homework in the hall of the dorm while everyone else was sleeping was not much fun! All in all it was a wonderful and growthful experience. Next stop was Seattle, Washington. I loved it there. I went to stay the summer there with a classmate with intentions of attending another year at Columbia Christian College but when my classmate left for Portland I stayed behind, moved out of her parents home and found a studio apartment downtown for $50.00 a month and it had a grand piano--so cool! It was such a good feeling to be on my own. Some funny and embarrassing things happened--I was so naive....Expand for more