Hello my name is Linda Pulliam and I am from
Oklahoma. I was born in Atlanta, TX, many years ago to wonderful
parents. I attended school in Haynesville, LA; Texarkana, TX;
Davis, OK; and, Duncan, OK. I graduated from Oklahoma College
for Women in Chickasha, OK. After graduation I first taught in
elementary schools in Oklahoma City, Checotah, and Muskogee, OK.
The last seventeen years I taught remedial math and computer
classes in Checotah Middle School. I have been retired since
1994.
My father was a minister with the United
Pentecostal Church International for many years, pastoring in
Davis, OK; Duncan, OK; and Oak Grove, LA. During these years he
also held many offices in the church organization. My mother, in
addition to being a great housewife, assisted my father in the
churches he pastored. In Oklahoma, she became the Ladies
Auxiliary director.
I have had a long interest in playing the piano
and organ, even "picking out" tunes before any formal piano
lessons. After three years of piano lessons, I continued to
learn "on my own" for several years. At the age of 13, I began
to teach piano lessons to others. Some of those students
continue to play so I suppose I was able to teach something. I
continued to teach after school and on the weekend for another
25+ years. While in college I was privileged to take music
lessons on pipe organ. While I was unable to have access to pipe
organs on a regular basis, the lessons influenced my style at
the electric organ--preferably a Hammond organ.
As with many things, I have had no formal
training in photography, but my interest go all the way back to
a Kodak Brownie camera I owned as a child. I got my first 35mm
camera as a senior in high school. Over time I had other great
cameras progressing until I got my second digital camera, an
Olympus. It gives me great pleasure both to take landscapes and
to edit the resulting shots to perfection, at least, I think so.
Like most people arriving at internet and email,
I began forwarding humor to my friends; some even suggested that
they liked it. I would search to locate new sources of
materials. This led to my first website:
Linda on the Web.
Eventually I began to use
YahooGroups to distribute the humor thereby allowing my
friends to subscribe only if they wanted to(!). Eventually, I
was inspired to publish weight conscious recipes at
Recipes for Success.
I've explored other web endeavors, including a few blogs.
Computers and the internet fascinate me.
Now, I've told you about all the things that
matter most to me except one: my husband: Jim Pulliam. He is the
center of any conversation he is in, a natural magnet for
others, a talented musician, and brilliant in his intelligence.
We met by chance at Robbers Cave State Park and occasionally saw
each other through the years. While in college, a romance
developed. After dating for five years, we were married in
Oklahoma City. August 2006 we celebrated 39 years of marriage. He
is attentive, loving, thoughtful, an excellent helpmate
(especially in housework!), a great conversationalist; I look
forward to many more years with him.
