Penrose Jackson (Penny Zimmerman). Greetings from the northern reaches of Vermont ... I’ve been married to Schuyler (Jackson) for 41 years as of Thanksgiving and we’ve lived in our small but cherished home in Hinesburg since moving in eight days post ceremony. My first husband (David Gearin) and I never figured out how to have kids, but marrying Schuyler gave me a ready-made family of four steps: one son and three daughters (teenagers living with their mom in Amherst). Time passed and there are seven grandchildren, one great grandchild on the way (next May), three marriages that survived “forever,” one successful remarriage, and one death (the husband of the middle daughter who died from a rarer than rare blood cancer a bit over a year ago). I stay active professionally (trying to launch a public health institute in Vermont, some other consulting) and as a volunteer on several boards including the Vermont Foodbank and the Vermont Historical Society. When my back allows (physical therapy is helping ... a lot!), I garden and play passable golf in the warmer months. My health is quite good, as is that of my 90 year old hubby who as I write is driving somewhere in Vermont in the employ of Vital Delivery Services, a statewide 24 hour delivery service.
Best holiday and New Year’s wishes.
Penrose/Penny
