Rhonda James:  

Life I’ve never reflected on my entire life and put it all into words so this is self-enlightening! I've done so much since graduating from Nathan Bedford Forrest HS in 78. I traveled Europe for a month, attended Weber State College in Ogden, Utah for a few semesters, then I met my husband, Paul. He was serving at Hill AFB, UT. We married 6 months later, 25 yrs ago, and life has been good for us. We moved back to FL and had 2 children. Adam who’s now 24 and buying his first home and Anne, 23, now married and she gave us a beautiful grandson in 2002. I have 2 stepsons. Chad 27 and Kevin 28.(All our boys have recently become engaged! <groan>) While my pre-graduation intentions were to go to school and "be something", I found that sharing life with someone and learning what the world had to offer was more my "thing”. I stayed home with my kids till they started school and then began volunteer work at a family support center in Italy. Soon after I started working part-time for AAFES. Since Paul was in the Air Force moving was inevitable, AAFES allowed me to go where he had to go. We traveled the world while living in Italy and Germany for 7 yrs. It was awesome. As an expatriate I attended the University of Maryland's European campus. Again, we moved so I didn't finish a degree. Paul transferred back to the U.S., which landed us in New Mexico, our last assignment. Paul retired in 1993 after 22 yrs. and I left AAFES. We moved "home", bought our first house, and started new careers near Tampa, Fla. He walked into a great job with a new company and I began working at Nutmeg Mills, Inc., a sports apparel manufacturer. What a super fun job! Vanity Fair eventually bought them out and the job wasn't as much fun. My 2 teens needed required mor...Expand for more