Life and Times of Teresa

Life and Times of Teresa

It's My Birthday...at midnight est. I turn the big 50. I was born at 4:35 p.m. at Stokes Reynolds Memorial Hospital in Danbury, North Carolina. You know, right up above the big ole town of Walnut-Cove, which is about twenty miles north of the GREAT BIG city of Winston-Salem, N.C. 50 years later, I live in the State Capital. When my Mom at I would drive through Raleigh, on our way to the beach...lol...I spent a lot of time going to Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Morehead Beach, N.C. At that time, my foot loose and fancy free Momma was into the water and the sun...I love Music, my Momma don't dance and my daddy don't rock in roll DID NOT apply to the two people that created me. Mom was only 18. She could "twist and shout" and do that dancin' where they kinda like on dirty dancin'. I don't know what that's called!!!! Anyway, my daddy and my mom had that down pat. I was a daddy's girl at birth, until momma drove off one rainy night with his baby girl yelling JACK from the back of the car window....If I wrote a book about my life, it would have to be written as fiction because no one would believe the real story....One of my songs is "I was born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus rollin' down highway 95...I change it to 95 cuz from 15 until around 18 mom and I spent a lot of time driving between N.C. and Florida. We decided one day to go see what Miami was like, just for the heck of it...and off we went. How my step dad (by this time mom had remarried a business man. She married him when I was five, and once again, Daddy did all the work, momma played, and I was torn between life styles...anyway...Mom, my sister, who was about four (making me about 14 at this time) took off for Miami. Drove 18 hours, decided we liked this place, and not too long after that, about two years, we were living in Pompano, Fl. then Mom married an airline pilot....we moved into Inverary (sp). You know, where the Jackie Gleason Golf Classic used to be held. He lived right across the little lake between our condo and the houses...each condo was named after a place in Switerland. Ours was the St. Moritz...wow...what a different life style...

I'm basically a "country girl." Most of my "only child until I was 10" childhood was spent between Walnut-Cove at my Granny's, which is were mom took me cuz she wanted to play, travel, etc. I spent every summer, most school vacations, A LOT of time, on my Granny's farm. She had been given 350 acres by her father...(I love family history, and mine is a hoot) and that forest was my home...I was an alien to my momma really. My daddy Jack had a genius I.Q., but prefered to stay in Stokes County and tobacco farm...raise English Bull Dogs...he was a simple man...an amazing man...and missed me. I reconnected with him when I had my son at 22. I had moved back to Walnut-Cove for a year when I was 18. Listen to Jessica Andrews..."I know who I am." Well, I'm the "spittin image" of my father. My wondeful Granny Brown, both my grandmothers lived to be 92...when Granny became "senile" and "didn't remember me" her last words to me were.."Sure I know who you are, You are Jack Mounce's Daughter." Granny meant those words...and meant something by them...When I drive into stokes co...it's known. The families that are my ancesters all settled in the same area...The "white" Browns...my mother's maiden name...were on the Hairston Plantation since it began. My Granny Brown's maiden name is Fagg, bless her heart. My Great Grandpa Fagg was educated at UNC-G, was a teacher in the mountains above Walnut-Cove. His wife and son died when the swine flu hit the appalacian mountains in the early 1900's. Granny was 12...long story...I listened to the family storys. Loved them, and need to write them down before this fifty year brain gets onto a different subject.

Well, I'm in a new life. For the first time since I was 10, no children live with me. I had my children at 23, 25, and 27. One passed away as a baby...My son is 27, livin' in VA near his Dad. My daughter, her husband, and my 3 year old grandbaby live about 30 miles from me...they stay busy, but my daughter has ended up being the one "there for me." I'm kinda single for the first time since I was dating the same guy since I was 18 for 5 years...long story...but the only man I consider my husband died in 2003, after two years of fighting cancer. I remarried way too soon, and am seperated...have a room mate that travels all over the USA, and have never really dated..never been to a bar...never been actually single...it's kinda weird...but kinda great. I have a list I made before I met the one man I consider my husband (the one that died)...and I won't settle for less than what I want again...I may be complex..but ya can't help but love me...I'm tiny...4'8"...having been in health care in one way or another since I was 15, I don't know a stranger. I'm a nurse. That one is funny cuz when we took the "cuder placement test" in High School, it showed that I should be a farmer...this was funny. All the other girls had to research nursing and teaching. I had to make a cattle farm work.. I've seen most of the USA..flown jets all over...my step dad (Gene) ended up being an exutive in New York, Manhatten...you know the deal...and I've done the New York tour, and even lived in Queens for a while...they loved to hear me talk...my southern accent...

To sum it up...I'm getting my wings back...gotta decide where I WANT to spend my next 42 years, and with whom I want to spend it...I've thought about doing e-harmony...

Well, I'm a night owl. The moon is full...I think I will go outside. Finish detailing my car...and watch September 27th come on in. Make a wish for me!!!!!

My First Post

Ok...I'm trying this thing out...I've done my profile...so where do I begin? I'm in the self discovery phase of my life. I was widowed in 2003. To tell you the truth, married again in September of 2003, and it almost literally cost me my life. I got out alive. So..I'm learing to live again. I have gone through.."multiple loses" and have spent my time saying I want "this back, that back" My daddy back, my Tommy back, my house back, my children back...etc. I finally realized who I missed the most was ME. Now I'm working on getting ME back. I don't think the person that lived in her happy little marriage etc, will ever be back. I'm creating now. My creative juices are flowing as I work on creating My own life...and finding what I really want. When I was really young, I wanted to be a housewife, period. And I still believe that the family went to pieces when we changed from no woman of mine is going to work, to no woman of mine is going to stay at home.
Not very women's lib, huh? Well, I have a traditional side, even though I'm a free spirit now. I am a mixture of things actually. A friend of mine called it "Well rounded." I had a 350 acre farm to explore and play on when I was with my Granny. I was in the city taking ballet when I was with my mother. I was shootin' a 22 when I was with my "real daddy," I was doing the New York tour, going to the Smith...you know that museum in Washington, lol, when I was with my step dad. So...from that little bit you can see that I have had an "interesting life." I could tell you stories that would curl your hair...I've been rich, poor, in between. I was the only child and only grandchild around for 10 years. My best friend as a child was a boy. I'm very in touch with the "ying and yang" in me. Like my profile says....I am very NON prejudice, and in real life, with people you meet, esp. in the south...that's not too popular. I'm (lol) famous in the little country town I was born in. No body knows my name in Raleigh right now. I just moved back to Raleigh, which I ended up calling home. That's enough for now...whew...it's been a long day....and I have phone calls to make...it's my birthday on the 27th. I wanted to go to Stokes Co, which is where I was born, and do some special things, since it's my "golden birthday." But my son isn't coming in until sometime Thursday or Friday...if he shows up..Heck..I should just go to stokes co anyway.
I want to meet new people, so all of you out there in computer land....send me letters, blogs, whatever we do to learn about each other on here. Teresa