The question: Do you still live where you grew up?

Answer: Good heavens, no.

I was born (1936) in Montclair New Jersey, at the same hospital as many of the Cheaper by the Dozen kids were born.

When I was about 3 or 4 we lived in Beachwood, NJ, but moved to Nutley in 1941. We lived in a total of three houses before spending four months back in Beachwood, caring for my paternal grandmother. (This was 1948.)

Back to Nutley, where we stayed (three different houses) until 1957, when my parents moved to the Miami area. After about two months in Miami where the best job I could get was waitressing at a Howard Johnson's I moved up to Cocoa Beach, where I got a job as a data analyst on the Atlas missile.

I met my husband over a rocket engine, got married, and we were off to California when his TDY at the Cape ended. We lived in Sepulveda a month, then San Diego for a year and a half.

That was followed by two and a half years in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where OD was born. The missile business took us next to Abilene, Texas for about a year. We were there for the Cuban Missile Crisis.

When all the Atlas missiles there were operational it was back to California. We spent about six months in Newbury Park, then were transferred to Lancaster--where we stayed for a whole month.

After that we tended to settle down, We arrived in Slidell (LA) in '63 and stayed till '68. We left with two children and headed back to the Cape area for the Apollo program. In '76 it was back to Louisiana where I've been ever since. And I have no plans to leave here.

On the travel side, I've been in 42 of the contiguous states, four Canadian provinces, England, Scotland, and Wales, Kenya and Tanzania, plus a bunch of European countries, including three summers in Romania working at an excavation of a Roman fort on the lower Danube.

No, I do NOT live in the same place I grew up.