Linda Saker

Working on this new venture — combining today’s amazing technology with yesterday’s good values, good customer relations and a service focused on small businesses with small budgets — is satisfying beyond words. The best part is supporting worthy causes through the combined efforts of our customers' generosity. Truly, this approach — giving to others as a part of doing business adds special value to this undertaking. It simply feels great!

No covers of Time or Rolling Stone for me, but maybe a card from Willard Scott in a few years!

 

After spending most of my life as an “Inside the Capitol Beltway” suburbanite with a lengthy stint in Music City USA, I find myself happily approaching retirement age in a sleepy little town with mountain views, church bellDid You Know?s ringing “America the Beautiful” at noon each day, and a Town Hall out of a classic movie — rather like “It’s a Wonderful Life” year round. And it is indeed a wonderful life — including new exciting challenges in a new business.

Looking back over the past 6 decades plus, I realize what interesting times these years have been. Simply being born is the United States is a blessing beyond words. Living during a time of incredible events, discoveries and monumental, life-altering changes from the discovery of the Salk vaccine (it took 3 people to hold me down for the shot); the launching of the first satellite — Sputnik; the debut of Elvis Presley on America's Sunday night ritual — The Ed Sullivan Show; the Supreme Court rulings on school integration and prayer in the schools; getting my first "transitor radio" listening to Rockin' Robin while sitting on the front steps; the moon landing on July 20, 1969 (my brother's birthday is July 20, so it is easy to remember — also had 16 month-old Elena bunk out in front of the TV for this event — she swears she remembers it too!); the assasinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy; the Vietnam War; Watergate (I got my driver's license the day Nixon resigned — I had just turned 29 — yes, quite a bit late as most of my friends had their licenses at 16); the gas lines of the mid-70s; taking the new Metro from Silver Spring, MD to see Pope John Paul II on his first visit to the United States (my son was about 14 at the time and thought seeing the Pope was more exciting that going to a Van Halen concert) . . . you know, I could go on and on and on — this is turning into an autobiographical trivia journey and I am only up to the 80s — need to stop and focus on the task at hand . . . .





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