I was born in Port Clinton, Ohio, a small town on the shore of Lake Erie, and a half an hour’s drive from Port Clinton is Belleview, where my Grandma and Grandpa Siegel lived on a farm. The view from my Grandma Belknap’s front window overlooking Lake Erie in Port Clinton and my Grandpa Siegel’s landscape in Belleview which embodied his patience, kindness, and work ethic are the settings of my current work.
Now my immediate family has moved on, first to Illinois and then to Milwaukee. And it seems that the early twenties is the time for many when a generation so influential to one’s character and attitude begins to leave. And as the grandparents leave us so does there way of being it seems. It seems insincere to post this autobiographical blurb onto a website where it is removed from intimate conversation, and posted for all to see. My grandpa would have talked to you in person.
