Barbara Fillion:  

Life I live in Cincinnati, a city our family loves. Having retired in 2004 after a 29-year career with Procter & Gamble, I am active in our church (Hyde Park Community UMC), and in a number of community organizations. My husband, John, and I have been married 28 years, and we have two great sons. Our older son graduated (cum laude -- aren't I the proud mom!) in May 2006 from Columbus College of Art & Design (just 100 miles from home). He's working at a friend's poster and frame warehouse (didn't need that Illustration BFA to do that!), and is engaged, but without a date or location firmly set (proof that God has a perverted sense of humor, that a math major and an engineer would get a visual artist with NO left brain!) Our younger son is a freshman at Michigan State, working on a dual degree/dual major in bass performance and mechanical engineering ... thank goodness for their Honors College, to help him navigate that double major! We purchased a condo in a golf/ski resort in northern Michigan about 10 years ago, and the boys and John learned to ski or snowboard -- I settle...Expand for more