The town I grew up in had around 20,000 people. What memories do you have growing up in McAlester? He realized he wanted to make a career switch and went back to school to become a PTA. That was in the early 1980s and not common. She had Alzheimer’s, so he took care of her full time while my mom was working. My mom was a paralegal.Īt one point, my dad was a stay-at-home dad taking care of his mom, who was living with us. He went back to college in his mid-40s to study physical therapy and made the switch. He was a physical therapist assistant later in life. My father was a cowboy – a tried and true cowboy who roped cattle and all.
