Photos

This is a picture of my parents, Nan Rugheimer and Guy Cromer, taken on a beach near Charleston, S.C. during their courtship.	[Click for Larger Photo]
[Click for Larger Photo]	My first formal portrait to celebrate the fact that I was one year old. This is the only time I was a cute kid. It was all downhill from here.
My sister Nancy, my mother and I. Nancy and I wore our hair like this until we were in junior high. I am the one in the tam. Nancy is the one with the new watch	[Click for Larger Photo]
[Click for Larger Photo]	My father is holding Billy, I'm holding Buttsy.   Buttsy use to push me in the hammock
I was about seven. The rabbit was named Danny.	[Click for Larger Photo]
[Click for Larger Photo]	I was a senior in high school when this was taken.   Nancy was in college, a math major. I was going to major in math, too. Sister mathematicians.
My four children(l. to r.): Nan, Betsy, Guy and Laurie.   Guy did the computer graphics for The Computer Nut and two of my daughters are now writings books of their own.	[Click for Larger Photo]
[Click for Larger Photo]	Urbana, Illinois, 1956.   Behind us are the barracks where I began to write. I really had two choices - write or lose my mind. I wrote.
Me and my Yellow Bird.   I got my pilot's license in this plane on December 19,1984.	[Click for Larger Photo]
[Click for Larger Photo]	Here I am running the wing of my husband's sailplane. The sailplane is hooked to an airplane by a long rope, and I hold the wings level until they get going.