Who was your childhood hero?

Jules Verne. The writer. I loved his books. They taught me about imagination, math, physics, space and just plain fun. They taught me to dream, to explore, to be unafraid of the unknown and how to solve a problem. I still read him today and get new things out his books with every new reading.

I really don't know of any, but after reading your story, I would have loved to have a granny like yours, she sounds like she was fantastic.. I did have a wonderful step-grandmother, but she was nowhere as colorful as yours was..

Mine was Shakespeare and Jules Ware, ya, completely differe fields, right?
Yes I like both English literature and also space launches. what about yours?

My grandpa was a gentle man not a gentleman he would not hurt anything and the butterflies lit on his shoulders. he could feed a wild squirrel from his hand and bee swarms lit on his shoulder. he taught me to be kind and compassinate to all
animals and specially to my dog and my cats too. He always
wore overalls and worked really hard on our farm. he was only two years older than my dad. he was my mom's dad. I went to
him with things I would never have gone to with my dad and I knew he loved me and I trusted him. it hurt so much when he died and I could not get to his funeral in time to say goodbye as my folks did not let me know in time. I was in arizona and they all were in 'south Dakota.