Ohio moves to redefine abortion to include some birth control devices.

[zwyziec]

64. Hi Auggie

My wife and I lived in Mentor Ohio west East of Cleveland. We moved to the Bay area in 1980. My wife passed away in 1986, I remarried in 1988, worked as a CEO/COO/President of high tech companies, with an investment firm and as the Administrator of a large parish in San Jose. My wife is a native of Salem, Oregon so we moved to Wilsonville in 2005 after my third retirement.

We have a son in San Jose, one in San Francisco, one in Sacramento and one in Sedona. I love Oregon. It's Blue, secular and liberal where we live.

I only mention this to make a point. When we go back to Cleveland to visit my classmates who I've stayed in touch with over the past 69 years, since grade school, I am amazed at the stunted personal growth of those who stayed in Cleveland. These are the Reagan Democrats who bought the Welfare Queen meme and who today are as racist as they were back then.

Anyone who lives in the Bay area has to be tolerant, open minded, and educated, even if only by life's experience. Thank god I moved my family back then. Now I can look at my two grandsons, who graduated from Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose and are students at Gonzaga University in Spokane, and see how their lives have been improved by my "immigration" just as my grandparents gave me a great life with their "immigration" from Poland back in 1880.

We had a dear friend who lived in Napa Valley, Mary Catherine Zunt. She passed away two years ago after complications from a kidney transplant.

We just returned last week from our trip to San Jose for our grandson's graduation. It's always special to go back there unlike going back to Cleveland!!

I hope you have a great life in Napa. It's a special place. Keep in touch. Zwyziec