Why people do the things they do has always intrigued me. This passion has led me down some varied and sundry career paths. I have logged many decades as a behavior specialist, a career counselor and the owner of two small businesses. However, it is my current career, teaching psychology at the college level, which has me tagging it as my ‘dream job’. Although I have recently been offered the opportunity to pursue my counseling license and hang my ‘get your therapy here’ shingle, I am uncertain that it is the path I want to take at this point in time. Presently, I am content to teach my students the theoretical answers to my favorite lifelong question ‘why do people do the things they do?” and to be the ear they need as they set out to conquer their dreams. It is one of my passions.
My teaching schedule provides me with the freedom to pursue my second passion, photography. I have been an avid scrapbooker for almost thirteen years. However, it has only been since the beginning of this year that I have taken my love of ‘viewing the world through my camera lens’ to a more professional level. There are times when my love of photography has me considering embarking on my third small business venture but I manage to rein myself in and be content to simply display my photos on my blog.
Although I have always defined myself as a relatively independent person, looking back over the years, I have to be honest and state that my behaviors spoke otherwise. After several (!!) relational mistakes, I now find myself quite happily married to the only man I ever loved. At a time when other women were experiencing symptoms of menopause and a midlife crisis or two, I was experiencing labor pains. At the age of forty I was blessed with the most intelligent, beautiful child that God has ever created. That explains why, twelve years later (almost thirteen), I am a decade behind on the midlife crisis curve (grin).
Yet, here I am. a woman with many a tale to tell, experiences to share and threads of wisdom to tie it all up with. This is who I am. A wife, mother, photographer, and college professor navigating her way through one midlife crisis after another.
