Mom, the best teenager in the world. She gave no one any trouble , was on her own at 16, attended UCLA and served in the Coast Guard during WW2. A Leo, she was the secretary at her husband's marina until he retired. Her favorite tv shows are Murder, SheWrote, and Mother Anjelica on the EWTN cable network. She doesn't care for music, and her hobbies are crocheting, shopping for bargains,crossword puzzles, and collecting Hummels. I've never seen her go swimming. Her father 's parents came from Germany (Batliner) and her mother's people were from France (Beauvais). Ancestral Batliners were mayors in Leichtenstein. Her dad worked for the railroad. |
right--PHY's mother. Front--my dad and his little brother Jack |
My dad and mom at their wedding |
Me at mine |
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Paul A. majored in zoology at the University of Michigan and owned a marina for a number of years. He was also a stockbroker and is a nation- ally reknowned "birder" with AUDOBON. |
Young Paul in Mexico |
Paul, summer 1999 |
Dad and Mom, summer 1999 |
Mom, the best teenager in the world. She gave no one any trouble , was on her own at 16, attended UCLA and served in the Coast Guard during WW2. A Leo, she was the secretary at her husband's marina until he retired. Her favorite tv shows are Murder, SheWrote, and Mother Anjelica on the EWTN cable network. She doesn't care for music, and her hobbies are crocheting, shopping for bargains,crossword puzzles, and collecting Hummels. I've never seen her go swimming. Her father 's parents came from Germany (Batliner) and her mother's people were from France (Beauvais). Ancestral Batliners were mayors in Leichtenstein. Her dad worked for the railroad. |
Was your Mom mean? I know mine was. We had the meanest mother in the whole world! While other kids ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal, or eggs,or toast. When others had a Pepsi and a Twinkies for lunch, we had to eat sandwiches. And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was different from what other kids had, too. Mother insisted on knowing where we were at all times. You'd think we were convicts in a prison. She had to know who our friends were, and what we were doing with them. She insisted that if we said we would be gone for an hour, we would be gone for an hour or less. We were ashamed to admit it, but she had the nerve to break the Child Labor Laws by making us work. We had to wash the dishes, make the beds, learn to cook, vacuum the floor, do laundry, and all sorts of cruel jobs. I think she would lie awake at night thinking of more things for us to do. She always insisted on us telling the truth the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. By the time we were teenagers, she could read our minds. Then, life was really tough! Mother wouldn't let our friends just honk the horn when they drove up. They had to come up to the door so she could meet them while everyone else could date when they were 12 or 13, we had to wait until we were 16. Because of our mother we missed out on lots of things other kids experienced. None of us have ever been caught shoplifting, vandalizing other's property or ever arrested for any crime. It was all her fault. Now that we have left home, we are all God-fearing, educated, honest adults. We are doing our best to be mean parents just like Mom was. I think that is what's wrong with the world today. It just doesn't have enough mean moms anymore. |
MEAN OLD MOM This was emailed to me by a friend but if my twin sister read it, she'd think I wrote it |
