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The family is very dear to me indeed. On these pages I have two major links which are soley for family articles. The first one expresses the romance and adventure of life within a loving relationship with my dearest friend. This, as a web page, gets complex but as a life experience is mostly simple. Complications in the relationship arise from trying to unnaturally shape it into what it isn't meant to be. Visit the Ron Schow and Nancy Ballinger page for a deeper look, as far as I'm willing to share with the public, of the marriage I never thought could happen.
The other family related page presents the Genealogy of my own family. This history traces back as far as William the Conquerer, that is about 1066ce, with little accuracy and lots of exageration. There is better accuracy in those history lines that are nearer to the present, say about 150 years back. But the exageration still has a recurrent dominance, mostly because the research is, and the descriptions are, my own. You'll know what I mean when you click here to visit the Generations page. Currently this houses only my own family's history. Later, the Ballinger side of the family will be posted, too. Note that, except for my own entry, only deceased people are shown here. This keeps me out of trouble when the exageration is of my own original creation. Reader Beware!
I am the author of innumerable short stories... I just haven't written them down, yet. Except for one. You can read it, and others to come in the future, here on the Short Stories page.
Labyrinths represent an opening of my own mind to the mysteries of the unexplained. I have been primarily a left-brained person, having my interests in the "provable" arts and seeking order and reason in all things. Walking a Labyrinth is an experience that reveals there is more to reality than one can understand. Though I encourage all to reach into the unknown to discover what is unknown, which began with my first labyrinth walk, here I share in these pages my visits to several labyrinths around, so far, California.
The Bhudda teaches for the Four Noble Truths, the first of which is, "This is the noble truth of dukkha: illness is dukkha, death is dukkha; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair are dukkha...". Certainly, all of these are experienced by those whose loved one dies. Jennifer is greatly missed and will be by all who knew and loved her. This memorial page is dedicated to the memory of Jennifer Eileen Schow.