One of the hardest things for me to do is to come up with something about myself, who I am, and what I like that I think others would be interested in knowing and that I don't think would be too personal to share. As you can imagine, this project was therefore very hard for me. But I decided that others don't necessarily have to be interested in EVERYTHING about who I am and what I like. So, if I just start creating, I might come up with enough things so that anyone who visits might find SOMETHING interesting!

I live in Virginia with my husband of 22 years (I have officially been married longer than I was single!) and our 3 1/2 children. My kids are 19, 17, and 15, and we're in the process of adopting a 2-year-old little angel!  I work as a Documentation Manager/Technical Editor for Northrop Grumman in Chantilly, and I am one of those truly fortunate people who genuinely LOVES their job!  I am two classes and a thesis away from my Master's Degree in Professional Writing and Editing, which feels a like a lot more than it sounds. Oh, and I guess I should mention that I LOVE Bugs Bunny.

Good timing, just in time, in the nick of time, never enough time, through the good times and bad times, I’ve had the time of my life.

Throughout my adult life, I have come to realize that all my worries and all my problems take care of themselves or work themselves out if given enough time. I have also come to the realization (actually epiphany) that who I am is a result of certain things that have happened at certain times in my life, as well as certain people I have known at certain times. We are all a culmination of the different choices we have made, people we have emulated, and circumstances or events that have happened to us.

This page represents the work of one semester of grad school, but it also represents a lifetime. Until this class, I have never given much thought about why I am who I am; I have just accepted it as a matter of course. Completing this project has been a journey of self-discovery, it has caused me to do some pretty serious soul-searching, and I have to admit I was surprised at some of my discoveries. I had never consciously realized how important words were to me, nor had I realized that this was probably so because of my upbringing and because of the influences of some very strong women in my life.

I have decided to call my MyStory site Candy’s Corner because of something my husband once said to me. We both (before we even met one another) used to watch The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. There was a segment on the show called “Bullwinkle’s Corner” and there was a character called Mr. Know-It-All.  Whenever I’m right about something, he’ll say, “Candywinkle’s Corner!” I thought I’d shorten it a bit for this site.