I hope this note finds you well! We are certainly in interesting times. I am enjoying being fully back to work, and I have to say that the time away made it clear how much I love what I do.
I must let you know that I will be traveling out of state this upcoming week, leaving on Tuesday, August 11th and returning on Thursday, August 13th. I feel conflicted about the travel, but it is an event I would not miss. You see, my mom, who was 16 when she gave birth to me and spent my first 11 years mixed up with drugs, is receiving very special recognition. When she put herself through rehab, she got turned on to motorcycling. She put all of that addiction from drugs to her motorcycle. I'll never forget her first bike, a 1979 Harley-Davidson Sportster named "Piglet". She brought it right in to our trailer home the first winter to meticulously take it apart and put it back together :-) She was hooked on something positive. In the 1990's, she took her knowledge as a Registered Nurse and her passion for motorcycling, and created a program to instruct motorcyclists how to handle the scene of an accident before help arrives. It has since gone worldwide. You can check it out at
www.accidentscene.org. Well, the reason I am traveling is because her life's work is being recognized. She's being inducted in to the
Sturgis Motorcycle Hall of Fame. It's a huge big deal to her, and I wouldn't miss it for anything. I'm so proud of her! She's come a long way.