You Were Born to Soar!

Oh, the memories a few little words can bring to mind.

Today, 1962: Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, flying aboard the Friendship Seven. I was ten years old and living in Alabama when John Glenn made his famous flight. My family had recently moved from the only childhood home I could remember. It wasn’t the first time we had moved; and it surely wouldn’t be the last.

By the age of four, I had already lived in three states and five different cities. The string of moves in the ten years following Alabama would include four more states and six more cities. Such is the life of a military family.

Powerful, unconscious lessons are learned throughout our childhood experiences. For me, it was: Read more