I worked two jobs and went to college at night, graduating in January of 1990. My passion has been working with the elderly and developmentally disabled. I began work at a Women's Crisis Center in Tampa, Fl, handling the hot line and as a corporate instructor for the American Red Cross. Eventually I became the program director of a wonderful Alzheimer's Assisted Living Facility in Massachusetts. I loved the work, but I found it impossible to pay a mortgage in the Boston Area and moved to Maine.
Life is different up here.
The pay is not much to speak of, but the cost of living is reasonable and the land is so georgeous I feel like I'm on a prepetual vacation. When I was 31 years old, I discouvered that I had a half brother my same age. I was his first visitor and only relative. For the past year, I've made it my mission to get him out opf the institution and into a group home in Maine. That dream is about to become reality.