Monthly Archives: May 2006

by: Brooke Allen brooke@brookeallen.com http://www.BrookeAllen.com OPD 05/01/2006 My Grandma Anne was a southern belle born and raised in Dallas. Granddad Tom was raised in Chicago and sent from home at 14 to earn has way as a man. They met in New York City. Anne had entered a beauty contest. In those days (before theContinue reading “How Grandmother Won Granddad in a Beauty Contest”

OPD 05/01/2006 © 2006 Brooke Allen brooke@brookeallen.com http://www.BrookeAllen.com Originally published in International Family Magazine I began trading in May of 1988. By the summer of 1990 I felt like I was ready for a change. My days were spent in the most exciting, least interesting work imaginable. At least we had some money in theContinue reading “The Right Woman”

OPD 05/01/2006 © 2006 Brooke Allen brooke@brookeallen.com http://www.BrookeAllen.com Originally published May 2006 in International Family Magazine In 1966 my sister, Ruth, and I spent eight summer weeks in St. Mawes, Cornwall, a sleepy fishing village with a population of perhaps 200 souls. My grandmother had fallen in love with a two bedroom thatched cottage thatContinue reading “Choose Adventure”