7 Things Meme

I've been "tagged" by Katrice, so here goes with 7 random facts about me:

1. I taught college-level English for 10 years.
2. Nearly everyone in the wired world has seen my high school senior portrait.
3. I used to be a newspaper reporter.
4. Both my parents served in the armed forces during World War II.
5. I have a 15-year-old black cat named Stinky (who isn't).
6. I attended college in California and Pennsylvania at the same time. (This is a trick factoid.)
7. I have owned only Macintosh computers since 1984.

I apologize in advance to the 7 unsuspecting people I will tag with this meme. Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.

This week's Illustration Friday exercise, "signs," sent me off into a weird, dark-ish place that is, nevertheless, wildly amusing to me. Scarym huh?

Anyway, I call this one "Sign of the Times."

The Illustration Friday prompt this week, "citrus," sent me flying to my oil crayons. After swirling and smooshing around for a while, I came up with a composition that reminded me a little of an icon. A few smudges became eyes, nose, mouth, hair, and -- voila! -- Saint Citrusian, patron of lemonade stand owners, was born!