Granddad's Mondays

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Synopsis:</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> On Palm Sunday 2012 I realized I was already 65 years older than our first two grands in diapers. We might not have many years for heavy adult conversations on family history fun times travel etc. So I resolved to email two stories every Monday to our sons and their wives as Granddad's Mondays. Every December I would take about 120 stories to a local printer to bind them into Christmas books for each grand their parents and ourselves. Now we have four grands and 1516 stories in 12 years. All that will survive me. I retired in 2006 and am having an absolute ball writing in my senior years to proudly create a heritage for generations to come.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Author of eight family history books. Born June 12 1944. Degree in Electrical Engineering plus an MBA. Worked 40 years for Caterpillar in Peoria IL with 2 patents 3.5 years in Seoul South Korea and 1.5 years in Hong Kong. Met President Jimmy Carter 13 times and built Habitat houses in Vietnam Nepal Canada Mongolia New Zealand and 12 U.S. cities.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>I wrote this book of 85 stories and its companion book of 94 more stories for two reasons:</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>                     (1) Document 190 years of history on the Reiss Family Farm which dates from 1838 in St. Clair County Illinois.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>                     (2) Encourage all seniors to do the same write stories thing for their next generations. Your book of stories is an autobiography written in slow motion on auto-pilot. You are a self-published author and prizewinner to your progeny and friends. Congrats!</span></p>