1997

Home: Stroudsburg, PA

My age: 41-42

Work: Principal- Stroudsburg High School

Music

Candle in the Wind  by Elton John - I like just about every song Elton Jone has released.                                                                                        How Do I Live by LeAnn Rimes  - I dont know a lot of her music but I can listen to it.                                                                                           You'll Be There by Spice Girls 0 Im not a Spice Girls fan.  I think they appealed to a younger group.                                                                                             
Believe in You and Me by Whitney Houston - I could take her or leave her.  I did see her in concert once and she was terrible.  This was during her drug days.                                                                          Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? by Paula Cole - I bought this CD and loved it at first and very quick, I lost interest in it.                                                             
Sunny Came Home by Shawn Colvin - she is one of my favorite musicians and I've seen her once or twice and bought many of her Cds.                                                                                            All by Myself by Celine Dion - she is just too sappy fro my taste.                                                                                                           I Finally Found Someone by Barbra Streisand and Bryan Adams - I have never been a BS fan. I like some of her duets.                                             
If It Makes You Happy by Sheryl Crow - I like her music and I've seen her in concert.                                                                                          I Don't Want To/ "I Love Me Some Him by  Braxton                                                       Everyday Is a Winding Road by Sheryl Crow                                                                       Building a Mystery Sarah McLachlan - I love, love, love this musician and I have seen her in concert and bought many of her CDs.                                                                                Change the World by Eric Clapton - Ive never been a fan of his, whether it was when he was with the Eagles or solo.                                                                                                              Fly Like an Eagle by Seal - Sometimes I like his music and sometimes I don't.                                                                                                      Don't Cry for Me Argentina by Madonna- I didnt really care fro Madonna when she first came to the stage.  I thought she was trying too hard to be vulgar.  But now, all of her songs seem so tame and easy to sing.  This movie soundtrack was great!

Travels- Spain, London- My sister was  living in Spain this year.  I went to see her three times and one time, we went to London for Christmas week.

News Events

• President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore begin their second term.

• A jury finds O. J. Simpson liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman.

• President Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning.
• The Notorious B.I.G. is killed in a drive-by shooting.
•  A  study of gender reassignment of a twin boy who lost his penis to a botched circumcision is refuted. The supposedly successful outcome for "Joan" had been widely cited as proof that gender was determined by nurture, yet the patient, David Reimer, was deeply unhappy and had returned to his original gender by the age of 15, thus indicating the exact opposite thesis.
• In California, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.

•  President Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and their families. What a shameful moment in our history.
• Strom Thurmond becomes the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Senate (41 years and 10 months). And that is too damn long for one person to serve.

• Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• During the Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II boxing match Mike Tyson bites off part of Evander Holyfield's ear.
• The first genetically modified three-parent baby is born.
• Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• In the United Kingdom, the House of Commons votes for a total ban on handguns.
• The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) plays its first game at The Great Western Forum.
• Bloomsbury Publishing publishes J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in London.
• The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
•  NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
• In London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neanderthal skeleton, which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
• Jeanne Calment, the verified oldest person to have ever lived, dies at 122 years and 164 days. I would kill myself if I ever lived this long.
•  South Park aired its first episode on Comedy Central; it would go on to become one of the most infamous and celebrated sitcoms ever made.
• Diana, Princess of Wales, is taken to a hospital after a car accident shortly after midnight, in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 am. The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, takes place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over two billion people worldwide. I was one of them.
•  The first color photograph appears on the front page of The New York Times.
• Mary McAleese is elected the eighth President of Ireland in succession to Mary Robinson, the first time in the world that one woman has succeeded another as elected head of state.
• In  Iowa, a woman gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies are born alive, and the first in which all survive infancy. Shoot me if this ever happens to me.

Family

• o   My mother’s cancer returned and the doctors just don’t know what to do about it.
• o   Sharon, my sister, and her family moved to Spain for a temporary assignment.
• o   Brian, my youngest brother, is married to Cindy.
• o   I spent Christmas in Spain with Sharon and her family.  We ventured up to London where, coincidently, my parents were also visiting.  Sharon hadn’t seen my mother in a couple of months. I had just seen my mother last week.  I was pleased with how well she looked to me.  And Sharon was horrified at how much my mother’s health had deteroriated in the last few motnhs.