Please share your formal and informal educational background and major influences. (125 words or less.)

mom and dad
my sisters
catholic grammar school
catholic high school

mary rogers college -  theology
la guardia college - literature
mount st. mary college - creative writing
two other colleges -  where i took courses
school of court reporting.

major influences
catholic church
michael - my first love
maryknoll -
Transcendental Meditation
and
Contemplative Outreach

life as a court reporter

married life

and
all my children
and
my son Luke who was 20 when he passed.
and my grandchildren.

and also Full Circle - which is a conglomeration of
ex Maryknollers meet once a year- share a newsletter.

and also My Circle of Writing Friends - meet in
Bar Harbor for a ten day retreat, once a year.