 Diana  the second time around and have six children, 14 grandchildren and 2 greatgrandaughters. I am on total SS Disability with Lupus SLE, RA, COPD, Fibromyalgia, Sjogren's Syndrome & Crohn's Disease. I am a virtual prisoner in my own home, on a walker or I use an electric wheelchair to go out, which is rare. I started playing the piano, self-taught, at age 3 and by 9 was playing every Sunday for our church. I could hear a song and play it back for memory. I still can. As I learned to read in school I taught myself the notes and at 16 went for theory lessons for six weeks and took a state exam, college diploma's weren't required back then, and started teaching piano and organ. All those years I wrote poems and have over 100 songs copyrighted and a few published. Plus I recorded and sold a Gospel Album in 1976 and donated all the profits to World's Missions for Children. I sang professionally through all those years, between babies, and also taught for a total of 23 years. Then I changed careers and became Vice President of Fleet Sales for a mega auto dealer, being the top Fleet salesman/woman/person in the entire United States for 9 years in a row, selling more than 100,000 cars and trucks a year to fleet accounts, such as Alamo, Budget, Avis, National, etc., and huge leasing companies that supplied vehicles for their employees. The last three years that I had this job I became diagnosed with the Lupus and RA and hid it from my employer for that time until my Doctor's warned it would kill me much quicker than if I retired and took a disability. I forgot to mention I worked those 15 years nearly 70 hours a week and the last year I worked, I put in around 18-20 hours a week, after I got the courage to tell my employer I was ill. It took three years to get my disability and I would give anything if I could still work,br> and be more useful, but that isn't in God's plan for me. I continue to write for my friends and family, especially personal poems, etc., and do web pages which tell about me in general and hopefully will leave my family a legacy of faith, hope and love. That is a little bit about me. Diana Reed http://www.geocities.com/cdreed10/index.html  A Special Poem Diana Wrote to Her Mother Lollipops To Roses When I was only two years old I'd stand upon a chair And sing the songs that I'd been taught for anybody there. Those days of being just a child I called them Lollipops The Rose it was my Mother, to me she was the tops, Gone are the days of Lollipops, where joy of youth reposes, For now that I have come of age, I've gone from Lollipops to Roses. Now I have Lollipops myself to follow my lifesstyle, I hope when they become a Rose their lives will be worthwhile, Gone are the days of Lollipops, where joy of youth reposes, For now that I have come of age, I've gone from Lollipops to Roses. I've gone from Lollipops to Roses. © of Diana Dobbins Reed - May 1976   
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