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When I Grow Up I Want To Be ….

Posted Jan 19 2012 6:22pm

libraryI knew what writers did as I was a library aficionado. I read books about dogs and horses and wrote books about horses and dogs – even drawing my own pictures. And as I got older I had the main NY public library on 42nd Street to roam. [I think I most loved walking up the steps between the lions.]

I also recall wanting to be other things like a circus performer, a ballerina, a vet, etc. Ah the power of a child’s imagination. Then when I was in high school I wanted to be an actor or a mathematician.

How I wound up becoming a psychologist and then an attorney can be attributed to life – who I met, when I met them and where I was living at the time.

Well after Graduate School and a return to the Boston area, a friend [also a psychologist] and I seriously considered opening a restaurant. We knew the exact location we wanted but could not rent it. So my breads and salads never went public. [Friend was a soup person.]

I did get back to writing and published some research and a few textbooks – and might have kept doing that but full time academia and I parted company.

In D.C. – I almost lived at the Library of Congress and loved one job I had as I researched old Congressional Quarterly's and other ancient documents.

Now I write what I want – from my head – and often without academic research. It’s Lynn’s opinion pieces about the world of human development and politics. And my neighbors get to enjoy my breads and salads at our potlucks.

I was fine with this – but life again came a knocking and now –

ta da!

I may actually get into to the restaurant business – a pizza place family business.

 

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