I'll try to tell you a little bit about me but there is nothing very exciting about me other than a
varied background.
I was adopted when I was a week old and grew up in a little
bitty farm town in southern Indiana.
I was brought up alone by a wonderful strong mother who
worked almost every day of her life. I began voice lessons when I was 13 and
within two years that wonderful woman was driving me to Indiana University for
voice lessons every weekend. A six-hour round trip. To this very day, I wonder
how she did it. She taught me to be very independent and I owe her for it. It
has served me well for years although it may have made me somewhat plain-spoken
:)
I spent several years at Indiana University studying voice
and performing. I received my music degrees and left on “wobbly” legs to
try out my wings in the performing world.
I was fortunate to find gigs and perform classical music of all
types and lucky to teach both
privately and at a university. But...while music is a beautiful life it's also a
very fierce competitive one. An unkind one at times.
So I left that life and spread my wings again, back to
school for a Master’s in library science. A life filled with books and business
and helping someone every day, be it running a library, helping people learn to
read, or find a good book to run away and hide in.
And finally, before retirement I began a great business converting those old printed library cards into digital records in the proper cataloging format. I was very lucky to have a good business, but that was because I had great people who worked for me.
So all of the above has left me with a total love for books
and music. I think they go together.
I love creating and kicking around ideas, business, and
marketing, but if left up to only my own impetus I’d have a book on my lap :). Mostly
I guess...I just like to work.
My thought for the day: "Never confuse education with intelligence" - Richard Feynman
