YOU GO TO THE BIG POND

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My life doesn't always follow an intentional trajectory. 

I'm the person who decided to be an English Major in college because all I was signing up for were English classes, thus my counselor deemed it so.

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After college, I didn't know what I wanted to do -- so I went back to school and got my masters in English, prepping myself for a path that would lead to a life in academics, teaching English in higher education.  Of course, my path got diverted by a graduate assistantship in educational technology.  A few engineers taught me to code HTML in DOS before web browsers were ever a thing and off I went.

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My next step was following love -- for San Francisco,  With a CV that had HTML on it, I got a job writing in technology and began to create websites.  This was 1996 in San Francisco and the technology bubble began to fill and fill evermore.

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I was fortunate -- in an environment that was growing in a fluid and organic way, I had opportunities to work with wickedly smart and wildly talented individuals in a job that blended engineering with project directing, marketing managers, and talented designers.  I was, essentially, the liaison between two groups that don't always hang together in their worlds.  The engineers were chill and wearing their favorite t-shirt four days a week-- no big deal.  We worked long hours, ate a gazillion Krispy Kreme donuts and made Diet Coke pyramids.

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On grown up days, the less fun part of this business, I would put on something fancier and hang with the animated business side who loved being social and promised the moon -- which I would smile and nod while internally hearing the laughter of the engineers who were to build these dreams.  Good Times.

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I met the love of my life, a Chicago boy who made my head spin and my heart race.  We married and after an amazing time of hiking all over Marin and northern California, skiing on weekends, indulging in the golden experience of Napa and Sonoma and eating our way through the never ending supply of fantastic Bay Area cuisine, we packed up and with tears in our eyes, moved back to the Midwest.

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Three daughters later -- I live in an ever challenging and always (pretty much) rewarding life in Michigan.  My husband is fortunate to love his work, cardiology, and being the most social person I've ever met, managing a phenomenal calendar of "annual" trip that include ski, golf, and buddies (from kindergarten, college, med school, residency, and fellowship -- so many opportunities).  I put my foot down on fishing.  

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Don't feel sorry for me -- I have a bunch of hobbies too -- including brewing beer and getting to go rummage through random antique stores with one of my dearest friends for an "on the side" business of interior decorating.  Its all good.