With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.