I had just turned nineteen – just finished my sophomore year in college – when I married a Naval officer and continued the odyssey that military life requires. I graduated from high school in New York city, but by the time I went to college, Brown University in Rhode Island, my family was living in Washington, D.C. , where I went through seventh and eighth grades. Had to go overseas, and Mother took us back to the town of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she had grown up and where my grandparents lived.Īnd during the summer following sixth grade we moved to , and moved from there to New York, where I I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination.īecause my father was a career military officer – an Army dentist – I lived all over the world. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own. Was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car.
Was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three.
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