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[microchick]

Ahhhh, a Doc. Have to kid you a bit. My DH is a retired Eye Doc and I tease him about being the 'boss' We actually worked together the last 7 years before we retired. I loved it. I was office nurse, office manager, optician, Jack of all trades and master of some of them but not all.

I would LOVE to learn Cherokee.The only word I know is wa da du ga which I think means dragonfly. I got to spend spring break during my training on a Navaho reservation. They wanted us to come work for them after we graduate. One of my regrets is not doing it, at least for a while.

As for math, I was taking a math course for nurses and the instructor was trying and failing at explaining a formula to us. She asked us what we would do if we had to find the solution and couldn't. I raised my hand and said "call the pharmacy and ask the pharmacist. That's their job!'

Needles to say, the instructor wasn't impressed. Yeah, there is one like me in every crowd, LOL She finally gave up on us.

So Cherokee lineage is traced through mothers, isn't it?

 

[CapricornFarm]

I'm a researcher and the big mama doc.. I am Cherokee and my family left the tribe. They got mad about casino and where old school. I'm probably the only one in my age group that still speak Cherokee.
It's a proven fact that if your creative, your bad at math. Because you can't argue math 1+1 will always equal 2.

I never liked math but i could figure it out. But i would much rather do art.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I was supposed to have Indian blood but when my DNA was checked, there wasn't any. So the family was mistaken i guess?

 

[microchick]

That's weird, Cap. I'm glad I have great grandma Alice's picture. It's a family photo with my grandfather, uncles and aunts together with her and my Great grand father when they were all young. Probably taken somewhere around the early 1900s as mom was born in 20. Mom had the darker skin tone. I inherited my dad's red hair and freckles....lots and lots of freckles.

My husband has asked me several times if I wanted to do the DNA thing and I declined. It is documented that Alice was Cherokee. My grandfather's wife's father was Irish as was my grandfather and my father was Pennsylvania Deutsch of German descent.

And yes, I do have a temper.

 

[CapricornFarm]

My husband's family is Irish and European French. We have a red haired child, i used to color my hair like his, what fun!

 

[Talithahorse]

I'm a researcher and the big mama doc.. I am Cherokee and my family left the tribe. They got mad about casino and where old school. I'm probably the only one in my age group that still speak Cherokee.
It's a proven fact that if your creative, your bad at math. Because you can't argue math 1+1 will always equal 2.

That is so cool that you still speak Cherokee. I love learning about the Native American cultures. I haven't a single drop of Native American Blood but still have a certain fondness for the stories and culture. As far as math I try to teach my kids that they can argue with math. 1 + 1 does not always equal two and then have them figure out when it is NOT. 1 group of 10 plus 1 group of 10 (1+ 1=20) when 1 represents a group of ten. But then we can write it in a way that is less ambiguous (1x + 1x= 2x) then have them solve for x. Way more fun then just 1 + 1=2 and then I make them write a story to explain it..... They whine that this is not English but then I taught them reading last year and we did a lot of writing in that....

 

[Talithahorse]

I never liked math but i could figure it out. But i would much rather do art.

I like math okay but I LOVE science and History. Hopefully I can talk my Principal into letting me teach SS instead of Math next year. My son is very very good at math and my daughter is as artsy as they come. Me I am very creative but not very talented. My daughter's artistic ability exceeded mine at about age 3. Teaching is my calling and caring for animals is my love but I guess my greatest joy is in raising my two children.

 

[Mama Runner]

Guess no one will you be doing much of anything around me including going to Church and the real rain not supposed to hit till around 8pm tonight. This my sons friends house there's a road out there somewhere

 

[microchick]

My mom put a pencil in my hand when I was tiny and taught me to draw stick people. I still have one of my stick peeps drawing tucked away somewhere.

60 years later I still love to draw and paint.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Mama, so scared i think i am sliding into being diabetic. My labs show i am insulin resistant. I am starting to get slight numbness and tingling in my hands and feet. I thought neuropathy took a long time to develop. I gave up soda a while back and drink mostly water, but have green tea usually once a day. So much sugar in everything! I am checking labels more and anything with sugar as #1 ingredient i put back. It is daunting because its not just sugar but carbs that need cutting back. Scary.