I am married for 44 years and have three children and six grandchildren. My husband retired from the US Air Force after 30 years. We loved military life and miss it to this day. We now live in a retirement community that has three golf courses and we have a very full and active life. We live close to Austin, Tx. I am originally from Illinois and my husband is from Brooklyn,NY. We met in college. Two of our children live in California and the other just moved here to Dallas. It is nice to have some family around. We travel a lot and have been to Europe several times. We planned to go to Viet Nam this past April but onthe way, I fell and broke my wrist and a vertebrae in my back----so no Viet Nam this year. I am still going to therapy for my back. Novica is my favorite shopping place as everything is so different and beautiful that it is sometimes hard to choose. I have never bought anything that I did not like and I thank all the wonderful artists.