In between I've been in sales in the fashion industry, a coding clerk (medical insurance), a deckhand on a couple of gillnetters and trolling boats, a cook on other fish boats and at folk fairs, a University fund-raiser, a manager of the coffee shop at the local community center, a tutor, a Special Education Assistant and a teacher. All paid positions.

I totally thought I was going to be a wife and mother. My husband and I would live on love. I dreamed of finding the man that would make it so. Beyond that, I really wasn't encouraged to do much except look pretty and know how to cook and clean.

Boy have times changed!!!

Anyway, my life didn't turn out the way I thought it would but I certainly do not regret the journey.