Your Life History in 20 Questions: Q13 and Q14

Q13: As you look back over these experiences, what are your happiest memories? What is it about those experiences that made them enjoyable? Creating something new has always made me happiest. My first memory of this is when I created a log for my income when I started babysitting at 12 years old. I created […]

Your Life History in 20 Questions: Q11 and Q12

Q11: Overall, what have been the most influential experiences so far? Why? Overall the most influential experiences in work have been how leadership reacts to adversity. When I was at Leadership Greater Hartford I had a fellow employee (but in a position of power) approached me with religious propaganda on September 12, 2001 when we […]

Your Life History in 20 Questions: Q9 and Q10

Q9: What did you do after leaving school? How did you go about making that decision? After I finished all but 3 credits of my Bachelors degree, I went to work at Leadership Greater Hartford. I don’t remember how I found the job, but I sure loved being around most of the people in the […]

Your Life History in 20 Questions: Q7 & Q8

Q7: What were your interests outside of the classroom? How did they change over time? Ugh, I didn’t have any. I couldn’t focus. I wanted to be drunk to slow everything down or feel more free to rage. This feels so pathetic now. Being undiagnosed, and now diagnosed is infuriating, sad and eye opening. So […]

Your Life History in 20 Questions: Q5 & Q6

Q5: If you went to college, what was your intended major when you applied to school? Did your academic interests change? If so, how did that change come about? Well yes, I did. I arrived at Wheelock College wanting to be a social worker. I ended up finishing at Central Connecticut State University with a […]

Your Life History in 20 Questions: Q3 & Q4

Q3: What other things were you involved in outside of the classroom? How did those interests change over time? What seemed to be influencing those decisions? Work and play. I actually didn’t do much else. A concert here and there, I played volleyball in high school, but no other after school activities. I did a […]

Remind me to tell you about the tractor funeral and the priest. No, it’s not a punch line – it happened!

Phase 1 of the coronavirus reopening began in Upstate New York around May 21st. My family and I packed our car with all of our needs for school and work and got away from NYC. NYC was difficult and we needed to retreat to our favorite place, The Farm. The Farm is a home that […]

Your Life History in 20 Questions: Q2

Q2: How did your academic interests develop? What seemed to be influencing your decisions? My academic interests were all over the place. When one has undiagnosed ADHD it’s almost impossible to focus and learn something that you are uninterested in. I never should have gone to college right out of high school. My high school […]

Your Life History in 20 Questions

That’s a deep title. It was the first assignment in a Coursera course titled “Career Decisions: From Insight to Impact”. Coursera offers free classes and I have been struggling with my career choices since getting my masters degree and then getting my diagnosis. I realized I have spent so much time running and due to […]

Yes, But…becomes Yes, And

When I first moved to New York City, I had just left behind a ‘life’ in Sarasota, Florida. That ‘life’ consisted of a job, a house, friends, my dogs, and my soon-to-be ex-husband. I came to NYC to be a camp director, after school program coordinator and family programs manager but most importantly, to move […]