Week 7 – Theme "Landed" – 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks –Baby Brother Visit
This is my second year working on this year-long weekly writing prompts provided by Amy Johnson Crow and posted on her Generations Cafe Facebook page. I will do my best to write something each week. I've missed the first 5 weeks of this and trying to get back into the swing of things. I started working for Mervyn’s right out of high school in 1976 and worked for them for 16 years. In 1979 Mervyn’s was building 4 new stores in the Phoenix area and a group of us were promoted and transferred to Phoenix. I just turned 21 years old. All four stores’ management teams spent months interviewing, hiring, and training for all four stores. I always kept in contact with my parents and baby brother Shawn when I was in Phoenix. Shawn was ten years old when I moved to Phoenix. We were close and I missed him tremendously. I asked my parents if they would fly him out to visit with me for a weekend. My mom at first was very hesitant, after all it was her baby. I don’t remember if my da...