Marijo Gosselink:  

Life My Spouse During my senior year at Ball State, I was introduced to my husband by a mutual friend and classmate. We dated for three months, got engaged on Valentine's Day, and were married in August 1965. After living in two other states, we again relocated to the Chicago area, where we lived for more than 20 years. But in August 2005, my husband, Harold "Bill" Gosselink, passed away. We had been married nearly 40 years. He had been in and out of the hospital for two weeks with pneumonia, anemia from injury to his spleen and congestive heart failure. He had had Type 2 diabetes for more than 20 years, and was insulin dependent. Later on Aug. 5, he was to be transferred to a rehabilitation facility, but he suffered a pulmonary embolism that morning. In 2007, I was very busy getting my three-bedroom townhouse here in Bolingbrook ready to put on the market. It needed a lot of work; now it looks really nice. Because of the market it did not sell, and I have put it on the market and taken it off again twice since then. I'm thinking of putting it on the market again sometime next spring. When it sells, I hope to move to Connecticut to be nearer my daughter and her family. My Pets My 14-year-old mostly white domestic female cat, Patches, is very loving and active. I seem to communicate well with her; I think she really understands English! Whether she chooses to obey me is another story. My Kids Son Garrett married Wesley Sanders in January 2003 in a lovely ceremony at one of Chicago's "Magnificent Mile" hotels. They live in the Chicago area. After 15 years as a sports broadcaster and in order to stay closer to home, he began another career in the insurance industry. He now works for a management-consulting firm. On Dec. 10, 2006, I became a grandmother for the first time! Parker John Gosselink is a great "little man"; on April 10, 2009 he was joined by his sister, Reed McAlister. In fall 2006, my daughter Karin started as a lecturer (instructor) in the English department at Yale University; two years ago she became assistant director of the writing center at Yale. She completed her dissertation in English literature at Rutgers University, where she had taught for two years. In October 2010, she married Philip Frick in Connecticut. They have one son, Will, who is 4, another son, Oscar, who is 2 -1/2, and a daughter, Nora, 8 months old. My Job After 9-1/2 years as a copy editor with a group of eight suburban newspapers, I quit to work part time for a well-known social science research organization. I worked at a local telephone production center, where I was an interviewer. Unfortunately, after nearly seven years working there and achieving top level interviewer status, I was "terminated" in June 2005. After another job which didn't work out, I am now retired completely. School All in all, high school was a great time for me. It's sometimes hard to realiz...Expand for more