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 Once a year, most of the time, I write a column, I call on my birthday column. As I write started in April 1998, which is a sort of milestone. Ten years! Now, I am in my 11 th. Time passes quickly when we amusement. I have four or five different publishers for The Rogers Hometown News during those years.

I do not have as much resonance in my columns as in the past, but people still read and let me know they appreciate, “returning to their childhood.” Carl Knox name whenever a moment, laughter, as it is only to read my article on Wednesday. He said: “This is so true!” He adds that he always what I wish to speak with him before starting to write.

And, of course, my family, my biggest fans, because if I write a lot about it. My nephews and Nichten e-mail, once I column to say about our family grow up. “I never thought that” often, they say.

My granddaughter was just under 6 and my grandchildren not yet born when I started this column. I have already done a lot of stories about them. And I got no doubt of their grandmother.

The year 1998 was four or five operations and procedures (my husband) and I have a little cataract surgery. Jerry and I seem to spend a lot of time in the offices of doctors in these days. One of us has increasingly become a check-up, and, of course, there are endless tests. I need a procedure, but do not hesitate to my doctor if I feel that the time and energy to benefit. I am pleased that you can not Medicare, as an insurance company.

I wrote a diary, because I never fails to remind you what we have this year, or, as is most often Jerry year, which is surgery. One morning, Jerry asked me: “What get rid of the year, we have our cows? I have not written, so I have no doubt more to recall. His memory is better than mine.

Ten years ago… I had more energy. I had the energy! There was nothing that I could cope.

Well, I do not really anything to do. I was 10 years younger. I had a few gray hairs, not many wrinkles on my face and neck. I still have ambitions. Things to accomplish. Places to go. Things are changing at a quantity of 10 years. I am growing old, and spend a lot of time writing about it. Ten years ago, I just say I was in retirement. I would say things like: “My husband is retired, I am not” or “I am a full-time housewife.” Given that I am cooking so little vacuum, and even less, it means that such outdated. A new what happened, we started a sister of the meeting a few years ago (there are seven of us). Normally, we go to Branson for a few days, maybe see a show, but most of the time to play, laugh and talk in our room. We all love with the IMAX and go mostly on a pair shows.

I have seen changes - cell phones, computers, when I wrote for the first time, I launched this car column of the “hard copy” in the newspaper. Now, I write on my computer and e-mail, I saw, in Price of petrol to increase. Houses have a different style, most often the story of two furniture modernization. I read, which is also developer of waste.

But it has many, it remained unchanged. I went for my part of the family members of the meetings, summer camps, weddings, funerals, and I did a lot of trips. We now have a number of times in Colorado, Atlanta, a lot of times (that is, when our grandchildren alive), Oklahoma, Missouri, tours planned Arvest Bank, Mississippi, Louisiana and Pennsylvania, where we visited the Amish community. We conducted our third, fourth, fifth, sixth races (I do not know how much), Alaska. On our 50 th wedding anniversary, we have a cruise to Alaska. So, we have a few trips abroad - in England, Wales and Scotland, Canada and Ireland.

But there is still no place like Ozarks. And no newspapers like The Rogers Hometown News.

Marie Putman is a long-time columnist for the liberal professions Rogers Hometown News.