My Mother, Ranae, had several children in sets. She had a first marriage in which my older sister, Sharlene, and my older brother, Vern, were born. That marriage ended in divorce.
Ranae later married my father. Four children came to this union. My father died in a boating accident when I was 13 – an experience for another blog post.
Mom eventually met and married Joseph Johnson, a good man who helped her raise her children and build a beautiful six-acre setting for her thriving dream—Rapid Eye Technology (RET), dba The Rapid Eye Institute.