Heather Thomas Van Deren

When I was a young boy, my father had two axioms he lived by religiously. He followed those two axioms until the day he was called to meet the Lord. Those two axioms were -- "BE WILLING TO ACCEPT THE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE DECISIONS YOU MAKE" and "CONSTANTLY BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS". As a young boy and not wise to the ways of the world, I thought (as most boys my age did) that my dad was nuts and he didn't know what he was talking about. As I grew older I found myself