Ellen Granovetter:  

Life I left Connecticut College in the middle of sophomore year and worked as a research assistant at the Harvard Psychology Dept., eventually finishing college at night school and summer school. After moving around the country, we moved to the Bay Area of California (Palo Alto) in 1995, when we adopted our dog. My daughter Sara, a writer/teacher/flutist who is almost 26, lives and works in San Francisco, but misses the East. I recently traveled to Milan and Crete, where my husband attended conferences. Like my daughter, I am a vegetarian almost all of the time. How did I live without Indian, Thai, and Vietnamese restaurants all those years growing up? My daughter feels strongly about animal rights and maintained two blogs, animalchic.blogspot.com and creaturechic.typepad.com until she became too busy with work. She plans to start a new website soon. School High school was a fun but tough time in my life. I remember when I was late for homeroom and brought my lunch bag into the classroom. Mrs. Hutzler stood in front of the whole class and ate my dessert. Why didn't I try to switch homerooms? Once I was overcome by a crazy spell and couldn't stop giggling in the library. I was sent to my dean's office and stupidly kept giggling there. Later that week, I suffered through a stern condemnation by the librarian, whose office, like a god's, was the only room at the top of a stair...Expand for more