Questions About Life

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Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog "Funny the World". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. 

This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!

Excerpted from For Ty and Logan
1. Where did your name come from

It is Hebrew and means Grace. I was named after my father's grandmother. I have seen her grave in Scotland and it is just beyond odd to see your own name  on a headstone! (I have all 3 of her names)

2. Where were you born?

In  Rahway, New Jersey. Originally the place was called Spanktown because an original settler spanked his wife in public there and the name stuck!
All the towns in this area are rich in Revolutionary War history.

3. What was your house like, growing up?

Just like these windows.

I spent years with my grandparents and then my father bought a little Victorian house on a hill in our town. It was filled with twists, turns, balconies, hidden rooms and stained glass windows. I loved it and later my kids did as well.  My whole family, aunts, uncles, grands, all lived in the same neighborhood.  There was always a place to go.

4. What was your childhood bedroom like?

My bedroom was shaped like the side of the house with a bow window forming one entire wall. The
windows were floor to ceiling and outside they had real hurricane shutters on them.

5. Did you travel as a child? Where?

Yes, we went to visit relations in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts and  New York.

6. Write about your grandparents

 My grandparents were always around and it was  wonderful. I was really loved by them so much.

I miss them to this day.

7. Who taught you how to drive?

My father taught me to drive  on little winding roads.

8. When did you first leave home?

I went away to university, but, I really left home to get married. I don't believe kids should leave home to just live on their own. But if they do it is better for boys than for girls.

9. What did your parents do for work?

My father was vice president and chief chemist of  well known chemical company but by the time I came along he was retired from it and owned a  little store.
 My mother was a registered nurse.

10. Who inspired you as you matured?

  A clergyman who was the most  righteous and decent man I have ever met.

11. What was the best part of your 20s?

Being in my 20s was the best ever. Spent a lot of time riding up into the mountains to camp. Loved fishing and camping so much.

12. What as the best part of your 30s?

 The music, my job, kids.

13. Where is the most fascinating  place you’ve visited

The United States of America. Driving across it was the best thing I ever did. It's huge, gorgeous and well worth the time. I would do it again in a heartbeat

14. What is your favorite family story? 

 .My father was arrested on the castle grounds  in  Edinburgh. He was 5 years old and would not listen to my Grandmother who warned him again and again to stay off the grass. Finally she called over a policeman who "arrested" my Dad!     He never forgot that.

15. What was your most memorable birthday?

      The year I got the National Geographic book on Indians and a real pair of hand made moccasins.
16. What was your favorite food as a child? 

I had a few favorite things.  I loved, loved, loved  Bubble and Squeak (Colcannon), I adored and still do, Cornish pasties because I was allowed to eat them with my bare hands, a big deal when you are a child!

Breakfast was a boiled egg with toast strips to dip into the yolk. I had my own little kid's egg cup!

  Pickle and cheese sandwiches were the highlight of my Saturday lunches 

When I was a teenager  Welsh Rarebit with  ale in it (Yes Nanny, I knew) I got that rarely but it was a real  treat when I did.

And always and still today, Italian spaghetti and mock kishka which I am crazy for.