Barbara Aney:  

Life Living in Sandpoint, Idaho. Back in the olden days and the predawn of man, I Born in Olympia, Wa. Moved to the bay area when I was just a tot. (Walnut Creek). When I turned fourteen, my dad decided he was tired of the traffic and the drudgery of being an Otis elevator machanic in San Francisco. Out of the blue, he decided that we were going to sell everything we owned and move to the Oregon coast. He had envisioned making his riches as a glass blower on the old Pacific Highway in Port Orford, Oregon. We soon came to realize that a fortune was not to be made crocheting glass, so after a few years of near poverty we moved to the Portland, Oregon area and my father opened his own elevator company. At the age of sixteen I was tired of having strict parents decided I was old enough to live on my own and moved to Olympia, Washington. I married at the age of nineteen,and had a daughter a year later (she is now 26 years old). Divorced after five years. Remarried and had another daughter (who is now 18). I opened a Bridal Salon in the South Sound Mall in Olympia. After a few years I sold the salon and moved to Bonney Lake, Washington. Went to college in my 30's and became a jeweler in the Tacoma a...Expand for more