John Morey:  

What's new: updated December 2012: I am a retired elementary teacher, did my full 36 years. Been remarried for five and a half years now and living in Reisterstown, MD (about 15 miles north of Baltimore) since 2008. I am working as a trainer/consultant for a web-based company now called Edmentum. It changed to Plato in the spring and now to this name. It keeps me traveling all over, not only in MD, but many times in NJ, PA, VA, and DE doing onsite trainings. I also train online for the company for three products: Study Island, Reading Eggs and Education City. I just requested the tutorials to start on a fourth product (ESL Reading Smart) and hope to be up and running with that in a few months. With the restructuring of the company many people left, were fired or reassigned, so I continue to be real busy, even with seven trainings this month. The travels to NJ are always a trip down Memory Lane. My youngest daughter graduated from Lebanon Valley College (found out that was Dr. "Willie" Workinger's alma mater) with a major in Music Business. She worked at PNC bank for 18 months, found a neat job at the Adams County Winery (Gettysburg PA), but that only lasted three months and after a transition of working retail for a few months landed a job in Hagerstown, MD half marketing/ half sales, but she says she loves it and the people she works for. She continued her job at Old Navy, in the Gettysburg Outlets, because the people she worked for were so nice and it brings in good gas money. As a result of all this she moved to Gettysburg last May and lives virtually in the square. It makes life easy for me to tell people where she lives as the majority of the country know Gettysburg. My oldest completed her Masters of Fine Arts from American University with a degree in Film and Media. She has been working at WHAG-TV, a small market NBC (also) in Hagerstown, MD. She continues to write, but was disappointed that she did not do well at Slamdance or Austin, like the previous year, so it's back to the drawing (writing) board! I enjoy traveling and have been on three cruises since 2010. We have plans to cruise to Europe in the spring (Italy and Greece). I would love to ruins of ancient Greece and Rome. The household includes 4 animals: three dogs, two from the Humane Society a half mile up the road, and a cat. Dogs are good, Sasha (13), Sadie (7), Sophie (4). I became a grandparent, well, a step-grandfather, but I'll take it! Holden is a charm! He is 5 months old now and I have worked out my training schedule to be available to do grandchild care twice a week. I find it is exhausting! I love it and he is rolling over, almost figured out that curling up legs will lead to crawling, and we have lots of adventures twice a week. I will be able to start making him baby food in January. This is a repeat of my life back in the 1980's when I was home with both of my daughters for either child leave or sabbatical leave. I am always in my comfort zone being in the house and kitchen. I still love the NY Yankees, but the Orioles made for an exciting baseball season. I watched them any evening that I was already in front of the TV and with nothing in particular to watch. I did get to one game in April with my buddy from Waynesboro and it was memorable as he caught a foul balI. Duke basketball is keeping me happy this year. This started twenty years ago when a BHS alumni was a member of one of their early national championship teams. This is serious Baltimore Raven country, and I continue to be a big fan. While I enjoy college football, I really don't take it seriously, and won't, until there is actually a playoff system and the computer and peoples opinions are not the dominant reason for a ranking. My Dad passed away in 2009 and...Expand for more