Gentleman JimUpdated on April 21, 2013
I'm making the transition from high school teacher, and coaching boys and girls cross country and track to doing pretty much the same thing on the collegiate level. I also participate in Iron Man events when possible.
In October 2006 I lost the love of my life to breast cancer. We had been married for nine years. It takes a while to get over that. Then in August 2010, a promise I made but thought I would never have to fulfill stared me in the face. A single-parent mother of twins, who at the time were age 14, had asked me that if anything ever happened to her parents, would I take responsibility for her children until they came of legal age. She died in April 2007 of leukemia. Her parents were killed in a car accident in mid-August of 2010. The kids were age 17 at the time. My wife and I didn't have any children.
Today, I now have two children that I have adopted, a boy and a girl, that I love as my own. They have since turned 18 this past March.