My first job was in high school as a PAGE at the public library. My favorite part was getting to see the new teen magazine issues as I prepared them for shelving.

Summertime counter waitress for a fast food chain serving lots of orange drinks and hot dogs on toasted buns.

Summertime S & H Green Stamp clerk at an in-store redemption center (before you could redeem points for purchases made on the Internet.

Sorting paper stock certificates at the New York Stock Exchange after trading hours.

Member of the “Flying Squad” sales-clerk team at a Fifth Avenue and 34th Street department store in New York City.

Demonstrating microwave ovens at trade fairs by cooking hot dogs in buns wrapped in paper towels in less than a minute. (Funny how it was my second job involving hot dogs, and I don’t eat processed meat now.)

Sales clerk selling scarves at Bloomingdale’s department store at Lexington Avenue and 59th Street in New York City.

Taught English to Germans at Sprachstudio Lingua Nova GMBH in Munich, Germany

My first car was a yellow MGB convertible.

I’ve read a lot of books, both fiction and non-fiction about World War II.

My favorite ice cream was Almond Joy at Gifford’s stand in Maine, but they retired the flavor a few years ago. Sniff!

I’ve done a zipline tour through the forest canopy in Costa Rica.

I once helped fashion models change between runway appearances at The Waldorf Astoria.

Along with friends and family, I capsized into the glacier-frigid waters of the Saalach River in Austria while rafting, but we climbed back into the boat and finished the trip.

A nun taught my co-ed class to ballroom dance in seventh grade.

I’ve downhill-skied on a couple of glaciers.

I’ve had some great women mentors.

In high school, I won a national writing contest on the subject of the Irish potato famine.

I was once part of a school technology team that presented at Macworld in Boston.

I met my husband at the Jersey Shore.

I can’t sing, but my brother is an award-winning, Bluegrass musician/singer/songwriter.

Paul McCartney once strolled past me on a Manhattan sidewalk, and I managed to play it New York cool.

I love museums and walking around cities, but I also love hiking in the mountains.

I enjoy dry humor.

I like French roast coffee in the morning and often eat peanut butter on French bread for lunch. No jelly with the PB though!

I’m the oldest of six.

I’m a grammar nerd.