Barbara Kiracofe:  

Life (updated 6/26/2017): At MHS I was Barbara Mayhugh. Have been married to Gregg for 43 years. No kids, unless you count the 4-legged type! We have a 10 y.o. chocolate lab named Skipper that we rescued from a Lab rescue organization in Northern VA. We believe very much in spay/neuter and rescue. I'm an R.N., retired. I worked at B'water Home in early 70's for 3 yrs., a total of 16 yrs. in surgery at RMH and Kings' Daughter's combined, and six years in hemodialysis. We attend B'water United Methodist Church. I completed a marathon in June 1997 in Anchorage, AK, to raise money for the Leukemia Society. I went on a mission trip through our church and the VA United Methodist Conference in 2003 to Russia for 15 days, Gregg stayed home for this one. We stayed in a boarding school for challenged kids in Pytiagorsk, Russia (just north of the Caucauses Mountains), there is a 40 foot long wall with a mural of a Russian fairy tale that I painted! We had to use leaded paint because that's all they have over there! We had two days in Moscow on the way back. We went to the Bolshoi Ballet, walked through Red Square, went inside the Kremlin; I could see the walls of the Kremlin and St Basils Cathedral from my hotel window. What a trip... in many different ways! In 2005, Gregg and I along with several others from our church visited Israel and Jordan. We sailed on a wooden boat on the Sea of Galilee, visited the Dome of the rock in Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives, Masada, the Plains of Migeddo, where the Battle of Armmageddon will be fought, Bethlehem, Jericho, Nazareth, and so many other meaningful places! Since "retiring", I enjoy gardening, when able, painting (canvas and wood, NOT walls, well, except for murals !!! :) ), writing, scrapbooking, and spoiling Skipper. I HATE housework and ask people that if they must write in the dust, ...Expand for more