Uncle Herrick, Aunt Tracey, and cousin Katie with Daddy

Gwendolyn Piper Steeves: Notes from Uncle Herrick and Aunt Tracey

Cousin Katie and Gwen, May 2006

  • Herrick's suggestions:
  • Tracey's suggestions:
    • Stick with The Golden Rule of life and you will do well no matter what!
    • Be a responsible, polite, upstanding citizen—it's contagious!!
    • Learn to play a musical instrument or learn about music—it is a gift that anyone who knows music, knows how to really appreciate it
    • Be yourself, not what others want you to be
    • Learn a foreign language or sign language
    • Do well in school even if your friends don't approve—it will get you much further in life
    • Register to vote
    • Most importantly, live every day as if it was your first, and your last—none of us are guaranteed a tomorrow!