[Women] April meeting

[Maggie & Steve Meyer]

Rebecca,
When you spoke of Bill (I probably I have told you this story before), I
remembered years ago attending a program at Washington State and for some
reason after I was so moved that I was sobbing. I went to find a place to
grieve alone, which unbenonsed to me,  happened to be  just outside Bill's
office. He came out and just sat beside me without saying a word. It was so
comforting. I loved that man.
Love,
Maggie

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:43 AM B.Lisk via Women <women at fuusm.org> wrote:

> Thank you for sharing, Rebecca, you are most certainly a strong woman. We
> are blessed to have you with us and I thank you for all of your
> contributions and food for thought you give to FUUSM folks.—Brenda L.
>
> *From:* Rebecca Phillips via Women <women at fuusm.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, April 13, 2020 4:59 PM
> *To:* A List for the Women of FUUSM <women at fuusm.org>
> *Cc:* Rebecca Phillips <bennphil at hotmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Women] April meeting
>
> Hello, all,
>
> I am honored to know so many strong and wonderful women and to call you my
> friends. Like most of us, I have engaged in reinvention.
>
> In 1983, I was tired of my work as a management trainee in a corporate
> bookstore chain in Tampa, had fallen in love with Marietta while visiting
> relatives in Beverly, and packed everything I owned (or everything that
> would fit) into a 6x8 trailer and moved to Marietta to open Mother
> O'Riley's Books.  Since I have absolutely no business sense, that adventure
> lasted only two years, at which point Elin Jones bought the store,
> transformed it into a downtown destination, and ran it until 2003. The
> Marietta move brought me into contact with FUUSM members, who quickly made
> me part of this community. It was through the church that I landed my
> position at WVUP (then Parkersburg Community College), after Jan Schlieper
> called to tell me that her husband had taken a position elsewhere and the
> college would need an English Lit person. Maggie Meyer was acting division
> chair, hired me, and I stayed for thirty years.
>
> The next reinvention was traumatic and unchosen. In 2003, my husband (whom
> I had met in a FUUSM discussion group on UU history) dropped dead of a
> massive heart attack. I was 47, working lots of hours, checking in
> regularly with a variety of elderly and/or emotionally and sometimes
> physically fragile relatives, and adjusting to having a troubled teenaged
> nephew living with us. Adding sudden widowhood to the mix was not easy, but
> the support of my church and college communities carried me through.
>
> Still standing.
>
> Rebecca
>
> "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need"-- Cicero
>
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