I am a self taught artist and I enjoy life to it's fullest because I was taught to act in such a way that I can always have self respect.  Those are two words that have been forgotten in today's way of life and living.  I am 72 years old and my picture is a current one and I haven't had any plastic surgery.  I have earned my gray hair and wrinkles and I don't have to pretend to be someone who is not the real me.

I was taught work ethics and the best lesson of all is that the world does not owe me anything.  The more the government gives you, the more they can tell you what you can and cannot do.  That is when we lose our freedoms this country was founded on.  Hard work never hurt anyone.  My Father died when I was not quite 12 and Mother and us 4 kids worked hard in a small grocery store.  All of us have gone on to become the very best people we can be and we all  have a good life.