Personal Biography -Hello, my name is Antoinette Waughtel Sorensen.  I haven't had time to work on this page yet; in the mean time, here is a poem I've always enjoyed and below are some pictures of my family.

 

Painting Now The Picture

When my hair is thin and silvered, and my time of toil is through;

When I've many years behind me, and ahead of me a few;

I shall want to sit, I reckon, sort of dreaming in the sun;

And recall the roads I've traveled and the many things I've done.
 

I hope there'll be no picture that I'll hate to look upon'

When time to paint it better or to wipe it out, is gone.

I hope there'll be no vision of a hasty word I've said

That has left a trail of sorrow, like a whip welt sore and red. 
 

And I hope my old age dreaming will bring back no bitter scene

Of a time when I was selfish, or a time when I was mean.

When I'm getting old and feeble, and I'm far along life's way,

I don't want to sit regretting any bygone yesterday.
 

 I am painting now the picture that I'll want someday to see;

I am filling in a canvas that will soon come back to me.

Though nothing great is on it, and though nothing there is fine,

I shall want to look it over when I'm old, and call it mine.

 
So I do not dare to leave it while the paint is warm and wet,

With a single thing upon it that I later will regret.

September 28, 1972
taken the evening before Rick left for the military.
Standing ~ Left to Right ~ Steven, Antoinette (me), Mitchell, Isal (my mother) Seated ~ Left to Right ~  Ricardo, Lisa, Stephanie, Sabrina

 

Below, my mother & her children
on bottom left, myself with my children on right