I have done volunteer work including being a counselor at a week long camp on the James River with children from Gilpin Court and a reader for
the Virginia Voice radio station for the visually impaired.  I have a special and close friendship with Lydia and Aliena Terpstra, two little girls that a
friend adopted in Russia four years ago.

I love traveling, mostly Virginia, North Carolina and West Virginia but what great states to travel and camp!  I am always looking for new adventures
and recently rafted the white waters of the New River in West Virginia and visited the Holocaust Museum with a group from the Jewish Community
Center.  Some of my favorite vacation places include the Highland Inn in Monterey, Va., the Shennadoah Valley, Ocrocoke Island on the Outer
Banks, Onancock, Va. and all of the eastern shore, especially Kiptopeke State Park and my favorite getaway, Tangier Island, in the middle of the
Chesapeake.  I definitely have Tangier mud between my toes!  I am an avid camper and enjoy visiting the state parks of Virginia and West Virginia.

I love the theater and regularly attend the Barksdale (I also volunteer in the box office), Theater Virginia, and Mill Mountain Playhouse in Roanoke.  
I have many friends in the theater and have seen some wonderful productions!  I performed in a production of  "The Hobbit" at Dogwood Dell.

I also love all kinds of collectibles from the 30's - 50's.  I have a collection of vintage hats and hat boxes from Richmond stores, as well as
collections of  Fiestaware, costume jewelry, kitchen cooking utensils, teapots and water jugs, miniatures, and sheet music.  Twice each year I am a
dealer at St. Joseph's Flea Market.  Traveling the back roads of Virginia and West Virginia looking for unique collectibles to sell and trade is great
fun!

I love living in Richmond and knew that when I returned here in 1976, I would never live anywhere else.  There is something special about being a
part of Richmond, its rich history, wonderful architecture and first class cultural events. I am blessed to be a part of Richmond and feel a part of it
within me.  I have lived and traveled in so many states throughout this country from the Deep South to the Northeast.  I can truly say there is no
other place as beautiful and interesting as Virginia.
These last 30 years have been wonderful for me, rich in friends, new adventures and exciting places to live and visit.

I started working after high school for C & P Telephone Co. downtown at 7th & Grace Sts.  I moved from home into an apartment in the Fan in 1969
and started college part-time at VCU as a sociology major.  I met my husband, Tom, in 1970 and we were married that year.

Tom and I moved to California in 1972 when his tour on the USS Enterprise was completed. We lived in Alameda and then moved to Eureka in the
heart of the redwoods in northern California. We lived near the ocean, had a huge garden, and raised goats and chickens.  We did a lot of
camping in the gold country, the wine country, the mountains west of Sacramento, and along the coast of Oregon.

We got to see a lot of wonderful concerts in California; Van Morrison, Leon Russell, Dave Mason, Tower of Power, Loggins & Messina, Maria
Muldair, Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King, Santana, etc. (Yes, I was a hippie).   I loved California but missed Virginia, the distinct four seasons, the easy
living, and my mama and three sisters.  We returned to Virginia in 1976.

After my divorce was final in 1977 ( Yipee! Free at last),  I took a trip to Europe for 35 days.  I visited Brussels, Paris, Toulouse, Barcelona, and
took a seven-day cruise to Malljorca.  I almost decided not to come back but did because I missed soft toilet paper, crushed ice, and my family and
friends.

I have mostly worked in accounting related jobs in such Richmond hot-spots as 2001 VIP Supper Club (I know that a lot of you must remember that
place), Holiday Inn-Fannys and the Marriott.  I have been withVCU at the MCV Campus for the last 10 years working as a fiscal technician in the
Department of Pathology, fiscal administrator for Substance Abuse Medicine, and now for the past year as the grants administrator for the
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics. We are a department of 100+, including 27 faculty and 41 graduate students from all over the
world, which makes my job really interesting!
Highland Springs High School
Class of 67
Highland Springs, Virginia
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Posted November 21, 1997
My hobbies and interests are many.  I love to read biographies, memoirs, essays and
contemporary southern fiction.  Recently, I have taken up writing again and this past August
attended a week-long writers retreat in the mountains near Goshen, Virginia.  As many of you
know, I started and nearly completed a travel story on Tangier Island.  I took it to the retreat to
have it critiqued.  I also took another story, which I am sharing with you entitled "Monopoly at
Twelve" set in Louisiana where my sisters and I spent nine years before moving back to Highland
Springs in the summer of 1964.  I completed three more vignettes about life in Louisiana while at
the retreat and have just started #10.  I recently read my vignettes for fifty of my friends, family,
and fellow writers at World Cup Coffee.  The stories were well-received plus I got a lot of laughs!  
I won 1st place in a performance competition on November 7th at the Open Stage Theater where
I performed three of my vignettes. One of my short stories, "The Wheelchair" has been accepted
for publication in "Lumina," the literary journal of Dabney Lancaster College.  I am scheduled to
do three more readings of my stories this winter and look forward to making a professional
recording of them in January.