Jonathan Wye:  

I've noticed that almost nobody is saying anything on this site. Seems to be the electronic equivalent of the boys on one wall and the girls on another at a grade school dance, everyone afraid to make a move. So, I'll tell you a bit of my story and at least somebody might be bored enough to fall asleep one night :) When I graduated from Lawrence I went off to Western College (for Women) in Oxford, Ohio. Western was a very small liberal arts college that was in the process of dying, it had gone co-ed the year prior to my arrival and it did collapse after my sophomore year. I thought I would take a "year off" as I wasn't particularly focused on school anyway....My stepfather owned a small hardware store in New Jersey and I spent the first year working there. Some new medicines had allowed my health to improve markedly around then and I wound up being able to join the Eatontown First Aid Squad as an EMT and the Fire Department as well. I might have remained in Eatontown forever, it was a comfortable small town feel, but during the Blizzard of 1978 my mother lost two cottages on the beach in Scituate, MA which had come to her from my grandfather in July of '77. I came to Scituate for a planned 6 weeks to finish rebuilding one cottage which the builder had abandoned unfinished after he was caught at fraud. At the end of the summer of 1979 I happened to notice an ad for the Extension School at Harvard and in 1984 I was handed a Harvard University BA by Derek Boch. Since then I have mostly been in construction. In the late 80's I had a chance to sail to Bermuda and the Virgin Islands, tried unsuccessfully to run into Don Steele but heard he cut a wide...Expand for more