Today is my sister Gloria's (she's #3) birthday. This was taken on Mt. Hood in Oregon.Gloria is my go anywhere, do anything, experience as much as she can, sister. The free-spirit of the bunch. I won't tell you the number but, I will say there is a 15 year difference. She is mom to Erophili, and Jaz(z). They live in Southern Ohio. She is a respiratory therapist at a hospital in Columbus (with all those Ohio State fans, ugh!). She has traveled all over the US. She's lived in Greece. Speaks some Greek. She's been to Rome. Countless other places, I'm sure I don't know them all. She can play the guitar and she sings too!
Gloria gave me most of my adventures. I tagged along with her to Traverse City, Kentucky, Oregon, and Washington. I was with her the first time I ever flew on a plane. I met a lot of great people, Cindy, Lisa, Rea, and my oldest - in time, not age, friend Emily and there are many more.
My favorite memories with Gloria are the times when she'd play her guitar and sing either Mr. Bojangles or Return to Pooh Corner, climbing on the rocks at the end of the 1st Street break wall, and riding the 3 wheel bikes in Oregon - she lost her glasses that time, instead of her keys! Oh, remember the hermit - shoot, that 's all I can remember him by - and I got a bloody nose. Ah, and the fire tower on Mt. Ranier, the blueness of Crater Lake, Haystack Rock, the redwoods, and the ice and snow on the shores of Lake Michigan in the winter...
Thank you for all of the memories, I hope you have a wonderful birthday!
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