Nancy Bolton-Rawles:  

Hi! I was the shy blond gal on campus - Ladera Elementary school 61'-'63 and then TOHS in'64-'68, never feeling quite like I was good enough. Oh the woes of being a pre-teen and teen. Do you remember me, at all?? I was friendly and I believe fun, so knew many of you, but sort of shy to jump in quickly and make friends easily, unfortunately for me. Can you imagine - I was asked to try out for cheerleader and duh, I was too shy! My loss. I moved to No. California in 1970 with my first husband, Randy. Grass Valley - the Mother Lode country. We didn't last very long as a couple. I was too young, only 17 when we married - and no I wasn't preggies. I thought this was my way to be "independent" but this wasn't the right road to take... at all. I struggled for a few years after we divorced but I did stay in northern California for 30 years there after and was grateful Randy suggested we move there. I lived in the Grass Valley-Nevada City area until 5 years ago. My(now - 2010 - separated) husband, Bruce, and I moved to So. Oregon after we were both laid off. He from a 20 year software job that was outsourced and I had completed an online web designing project - an online learning course for a local company called Performance Learning Systems - my job was complete. I have two grown children, Heidi, 36 and Shaun,33. Heidi lives in Colorado with her husband and two children - my adorable grandchildren - and Shaun and his wife live in Grants Pass, OR. Bruce and I were married in 1992 on a trip to Egypt.What an amazing trip that was. Since we try to plan a trip a year to another country, but it doesn't always work out. We have traveled quite a bit, have seen some wonderful places and met some amazing people. It really helps ones perspective and opens ones heart, I feel, to travel and meet folks from around the world. Our last trip was Nov of 2007 when we took a plein air paintin...Expand for more