Cheese & Onion Enchiladas with Tex-Mex Chili Gravy Recipe

Don't let my platinum blonde hair color fool you (Spare me the quips on blonde jokes, please. I used to tell them, and now I am a blonde! ) As a young kid (see below) was born with thick black hair, that turned light golden. As I began to mature, my hair turned the shade of my father's dark brunette. In my early 20's, grey hairs began to reveal themselves startlingly early. My mother's German DNA was beginning to take over my father's Mexican DNA. Pardon the pun, but I do have Hispanic roots.

Dad, Mom, Me (check out the German Dirndl), Alan (nice Lederhosen, eh?) and Fred

While my dad was stationed in Austria, he met the woman who would become his wife, and mother to his children. My late father was born in Oxnard…