Comments on: About http://www.cherylbrunette.com Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:49:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sandi http://www.cherylbrunette.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Sandi Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:08:39 +0000 http://www.cherylbrunette.com//?page_id=2#comment-59 It was hotter there than in Kingman!! Yikes! At least, we don't have the humidity but.......hot is hot! Somewhat like sticking your head in the oven - and I keep that to a minimum! It was hotter there than in Kingman!! Yikes! At least, we don’t have the humidity but…….hot is hot! Somewhat like sticking your head in the oven – and I keep that to a minimum!

]]> By: Cheryl http://www.cherylbrunette.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Cheryl Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:08:59 +0000 http://www.cherylbrunette.com//?page_id=2#comment-57 Good to hear from you Sandi! It was 107º in Seattle yesterday and I could hear the moaning all the way over here. Keeping mostly cool on the island though. Good to hear from you Sandi! It was 107º in Seattle yesterday and I could hear the moaning all the way over here. Keeping mostly cool on the island though.

]]> By: Sandi http://www.cherylbrunette.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Sandi Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:00:59 +0000 http://www.cherylbrunette.com//?page_id=2#comment-55 Cheryl - it's just so much fun to keep up with what you are doing and to hear what John is doing now. How I envy you living in the beautiful northwest in the summer!! Cheryl – it’s just so much fun to keep up with what you are doing and to hear what John is doing now. How I envy you living in the beautiful northwest in the summer!!

]]> By: Sandi St. Claire http://www.cherylbrunette.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Sandi St. Claire Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:31:17 +0000 http://www.cherylbrunette.com//?page_id=2#comment-52 Cheryl, You were just the cutest little baby - I hope you look at her every day and feel your heart overflowing with love for her! I love the description of the tapestry of your life and want to read more! Cheryl,
You were just the cutest little baby – I hope you look at her every day and feel your heart overflowing with love for her! I love the description of the tapestry of your life and want to read more!

]]> By: Cheryl http://www.cherylbrunette.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Cheryl Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:38:21 +0000 http://www.cherylbrunette.com//?page_id=2#comment-5 By the time I was born my dad was the shop foreman for a small trucking company, Steel Trucking, that was a subsidiary of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Steel_Corporation" rel="nofollow">Sharon Steel</a> of Sharon, PA. He was "da floor boss" who wore coveralls over his shirt and tie. I think he was a benevolent one because at least a dozen of his men (mechanics, drivers and a couple machinists) came up to our teeny cottage near Tawas every fall to cut cords and cords of wood. We never used it all. I think it was a male-bonding thing. He died when I was 11 and my life changed dramatically. No more paycheck . . . just Social Security. And I'm grateful it was there. That picture of me as a toddler is from the company magazine at the time. It's the news from Detroit as opposed to THE DETROIT NEWS. All you had to do was be born or get married or graduate, or just exist to be featured. It was a way the corporation could keep their guys feeling a "part of the family." In a way they were. My first husband was an army officer stationed overseas. We lived in a tiny village in Germany for 1.5 years, then he was stationed on the Korean DMZ in 1971. I went to to Korea on a multiple-entry tourist visa and lived by myself in Seoul in one of about four "Western-style" apartment complexes in the whole country outside of the U.S. bases. I saw him once every week or two. It was an "emerging nation" then with almost no middle class and fewer tall blue-eyed blondes who shopped in the stalls of the local market. Hence, adventures happened. By the time I was born my dad was the shop foreman for a small trucking company, Steel Trucking, that was a subsidiary of Sharon Steel of Sharon, PA. He was “da floor boss” who wore coveralls over his shirt and tie. I think he was a benevolent one because at least a dozen of his men (mechanics, drivers and a couple machinists) came up to our teeny cottage near Tawas every fall to cut cords and cords of wood. We never used it all. I think it was a male-bonding thing. He died when I was 11 and my life changed dramatically. No more paycheck . . . just Social Security. And I’m grateful it was there.

That picture of me as a toddler is from the company magazine at the time. It’s the news from Detroit as opposed to THE DETROIT NEWS. All you had to do was be born or get married or graduate, or just exist to be featured. It was a way the corporation could keep their guys feeling a “part of the family.” In a way they were.

My first husband was an army officer stationed overseas. We lived in a tiny village in Germany for 1.5 years, then he was stationed on the Korean DMZ in 1971. I went to to Korea on a multiple-entry tourist visa and lived by myself in Seoul in one of about four “Western-style” apartment complexes in the whole country outside of the U.S. bases. I saw him once every week or two. It was an “emerging nation” then with almost no middle class and fewer tall blue-eyed blondes who shopped in the stalls of the local market. Hence, adventures happened.

]]> By: Gary Roscoe Johnson http://www.cherylbrunette.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Gary Roscoe Johnson Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:04:40 +0000 http://www.cherylbrunette.com//?page_id=2#comment-2 Interesting, I never knew your full bio. I do remember some interesting anecdotes you told about life in Korea as a tall blonde in a sea of short black-haired people. Were you there with the military? I think it's cool that your dad appears to have been a trucker! My dad drove trucks for Fiester Oil and the Inkster Incinerator before taking up tattooing. Did your parents have to enter you in a beauty pageant to get the Detroit News to feature you? You're a total Kewpie doll in the above picture. - Roscoe Interesting, I never knew your full bio. I do remember some interesting anecdotes you told about life in Korea as a tall blonde in a sea of short black-haired people. Were you there with the military? I think it’s cool that your dad appears to have been a trucker! My dad drove trucks for Fiester Oil and the Inkster Incinerator before taking up tattooing.

Did your parents have to enter you in a beauty pageant to get the Detroit News to feature you? You’re a total Kewpie doll in the above picture.

- Roscoe

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