Well, it’s the year of the AARP card for me.

I went to a few colleges and universities, eventually earning a BA in English and completing one year of credits of an MBA at SDSU. I lovingly refer to those as my “non-linear” years. Somewhere in there I lived on a kibbutz in Israel for a year and half, worked in retail management and then finally landed as a Manager of Human Resources for a San Diego Macintosh software start-up, where I met my husband of 20 years, Eric. We moved to the Bay area when I was four months pregnant with our first daughter, Anna, and then number two, Ellen, came along eighteen months later. We moved to the Seattle area in '94 and have been here ever since. I was a freelance writer for six years until I got sucked in to that black hole called “volunteering”. It continues to amaze me how much work gets done by people who don’t get paid a dime to do it, but, it is a privilege to help and I have loved supporting organizations that I care deeply about. I am currently on the board of our new children’s museum, serving as Vice Chair of Organizational Development. Both our girls are like walking, breathing cartoons—they have large personalities that we hope (fingers crossed) will serve them well in life—with our oldest currently taking a Gap Year by studying Arabic in Cairo (then she will start at Santa Clara University next fall) and our youngest working hard as a junior in high school (dedicated lacrosse player, which keeps us all busy!) My husband still puts up with me, the kids are healthy and occasionally the sun shines through the Seattle yuck…it’s all good. I will try to get over my fear of reunions and come to the next one. See ya!