Nancy Wesson:
CLASS OF 1965
Istrouma High SchoolClass of 1965
Baton rouge, LA
Nancy's Story
My life - so far...
I basically left Baton Rouge after graduation to attend University of Texas, and like half of UT grads, I stayed there for a decade. Got married. Worked as a Diagnostic Audiologist. Got divorced. Went to Africa. Came back and ran a Welfare Medical Program for a while before getting married again, only to quit my job to run off and live on a sailboat.
The sailboat adventure had us facing every storm between Galveston and the Bahamas for about a year.. It was great, but one can tolerate only So much Dramamine! Sold said boat, moved to California, and started a family. We moved back to Austin after a car chase down our street made it hard to tell if it was a movie or real life! It was real life - LA style.
Fast forward 18 years: another child - another divorce. Started a consulting business as a Feng Shui Expert and trainer. Traveled a lot to the mid-east during those years, then moved to the D.C. area. Not my tribe, so move...Expand for more
d back again to Texas. Wrote an award winning book, Moving Your Aging Parents realized, and a few years later realized I was becoming the "aging parent" I put my life in storage and left for post-conflict Norther Uganda (think Invisible Children...), where I served for two-and-a-half years as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Truly a life changing experience!. Came home and wrote another book: I Miss the Rain in Africa" Peace Corps as a Third Act, all of which brings me to now...
Somehow ended up in North Central Oregon, in a town of 500 people, on the edge of a wild, white-water river - all to help with the light of my life, my first and only grandchild. So here I am... writing, caring for a four-year-old, and trying to design the next two decades I think I might have left. I hope to find just a little more mischief before old age truly sets in, though - like most of us, "old age" is always 10 years older than the age I am.
The end - so far.
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