On Jul 21, 9:11=A0pm, Scott...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Does he not post in this group anymore?
Well, YES...but infrequently. After becoming disabled in late 2004, I
was unable for nearly 2 years to replace my ailing computer which had
given up the ghost faster than Titanic's post office had flooded. I
was graced with the gift of a new system in 2006, when you see my
posts begin to once again appear.
I still do school seminars on Titanic, as well as public speaking
engagements. I also honor the now annual requests for media segments
on local television each April, including our yearly radio-watch on
the eve of the sinking, as a guest of the Tom Kearney show on WPTF in
Raleigh.
I do read daily all the posts which come in my email summary.
However, in December 2007, my wife and I took in three foster
children; sisters ages 3, 4, and 7. In that my wife works full-time
for the State of North Carolina and I am home on disability...this
make ME "Mister Mom". The younger two are of school age, but I have
the 3 year old home with me full time. Obviously, I also have them
all home all day now that school is out for the summer. Therefore, my
computer time is especially limited until school again starts at the
end of August.
The oldest girl, who turned 7 in April, just completed the first
grade. She is a wonderful reader on about a third-grade level. I
have encouraged her and helped her to digest my dozens of volumes of
children's books about Titanic. Through the repetition of so many
diverse volumes on the same topic, she masters with ease such words as
compartments, survivors, wireless, etc. She is rapidly becoming as
much as any biological child of mine would be as an avid and rabid
Titaniac. She is now reading (with success, I might add) "A Night to
Remember"...and doing it one year younger than I myself read it!
She's on Chapter 4 as of yesterday. She has spent untold hours in the
7 months she's been here within my office/library, investigating my
personal Titanic "museum".
Yes, I'm still around...and thanks for thinking of me. I hope that I
have the time to lurk more aggressively in the future.
Dave Tuttle
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