Welcome to my web page. I have enjoyed a lot making these pages. Ever since I got introduced to the internet a few years ago I have been hooked. It is true that one needs to learn to pace him or herself, otherwise 'time flies.' Well, I really enjoy going to different sites and learning of so many different views of things from all sorts of people. It has certainly opened my mind and helped me be less dogmatic than I was. So I hope my page helps you in some way, and again, welcome!

I have also taken my interest in making webpages into the commercial realm and now have my own web design company. So if you need a webpage built, give me a holler.

As you might have read in our Family's page I am married to a wonderful man named Stacy and have two great sons: David, who is ten, and Jonathan, seven. I grew up in El Salvador, Central America, but have lived in the United States since 1978 when I came to college in New York. Stacy and I met at the company where I worked after graduating from college, and we were married in 1984. A year later we moved to Vidalia, in southeast Georgia, and lived there for the next 11 years until we moved to our present location north of Atlanta the summer of 1996.

If you're scratching your head and saying: "Huh, Vidalia???" don't feel bad, most people have never heard of this nice town of about 10,000 people in the 'middle of nowhere.' To be honest, the first time that I went to visit (while Stacy decided if to accept a job offer at the Hatch Nuclear Power Plant 20 miles south of the town) I hated it. After living in Long Island, NY, about 30 miles from New York City, this place was dead! So I said: "One year, that's all I'll give you!" But after 11 years, I didn't want to move away. Go figure! Well, Vidalia is getting to be more known now that Vidalia Sweet Onions are becoming a gourmet food in many places. And yes, they sure are sweet! It has something to do with the kind of soil around that area.

Anyway, living in a small town is both good and bad, and I found out about both. First of all, everybody knows your business, so you better keep it clean! People that I had never seen in my life would approach me and say things like: "We just love what you're doing to the old Donovan's house." (I better explain this: we bought an old house -c.1915- and started remodeling it, and even though we owned it for 11 years it's still called 'the old Donovan house'. I wonder how long we would have to live in it for it to become the Loesch house. - Oh well, that's a small town for you.)

But there were many pluses about living in that small town of Vidalia: the people were so nice, and the crime was almost non-existent (we had a hard time getting used to unlocked doors in homes and cars). Also, the traffic was nil. Stacy used to joke about 'rush 15-minutes'. After being a crazy NY driver, I had to learn patience. And I had good teachers in most of the drivers in Vidalia. I recall a time when, newly arrived, we were waiting at a red light to make a left turn. I was the driver, and I was talking with Stacy. Suddenly I noticed the light changing from yellow to red again. That meant that it had already changed to green and I didn't go, but none of the three drivers waiting behind me had honked! That was something unheard of in Long Island!

Well, now that we live near 'the big city' again we need to get used to heavy traffic and taking longer than 5 minutes to get anyplace (like it was in Vidalia, where it took 10 minutes to drive from one end of town to another!). But we also enjoy it here: it is a different kind of life. I guess that as long as we are together as a happy family, then it doesn't matter where we live!

Now I know that it is hard to have happy families nowdays, with all the problems confronting the family, but I have found great help in studying the Bible, and I have found answers to many of the questions that had me perplexed, like: If the Bible says that God is love, why are there so many problems in the world? If He is all-powerful, why does He permit so much wickedness and suffering? If you would like me to share with you my findings, go to my next page.

Well, dear visitor, there are many more things I could tell you about us (I love to talk!) but in the interest of keeping our first meeting 'relatively' short, I think I'll quit here. If you would like to e-mail me at louise@loeschfamily.net with any comments, please do. I love to get mail! (and I am trying to be more consciencious about answering it.)

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