I was tagged by Erica Vetsch for this fun little exercise.

It’s called the 10-20-30 tag. The idea is to post what you were doing 10, 20, and 30 years ago.

Ten years ago, I had lived in Nashville for one year and was working as an administrative/sales assistant at The Tennessean newspaper. I had just moved from a relatively nice one-bedroom apartment in a huge complex to a relatively crappy duplex in a great neighborhood (where I would live for the next seven years before moving one block over to the cute little house where I now live). It had been five years since I dropped out of LSU and I hadn’t yet returned to school, but I was already thinking about it.

Twenty years ago, I was a junior at Las Cruces High School, Las Cruces, New Mexico. At school, I was in the treble choir and the a capella choir. I auditioned for and won a spot in the all-state choir, which was held in January (’88) in Albuquerque on the campus of UNM. I didn’t get a chance to actually perform with the all-state choir because on the way to rehearsal the day before the concert, I slipped on a patch of ice and fractured my right kneecap. Later that school year, I scored a 1+ in the solo element of the state Solo & Ensemble competition (highest score) and a 1 in the ensemble portion with the school treble choir. I also sang in youth choir at church. Yes, music was a huge part of my life that year. We also had a foreign exchange student, Karin, from Sweden who lived with us that year. It was the year I got my driver’s license, too.

Thirty years ago, I was six years old. One of my most vivid memories of that year is going to see Star Wars. We had lived in Las Cruces for about a year and a half, and I was in first grade at Loma Heights Elementary. I enjoyed playing all kinds of sports with Greel, the boy who lived across the street, which is where my understanding of the rules of most sports came from, as well as the foundation of my life-long love of football.

I tag:
Rachel Smith
Jennifer Hofmann
Patricia Woodside
Ruth Anderson
and Amy Jane