Vicki Cummings:  

I am married to Larry Cummings (LTHS Class of 1966) and have 3 grown children. We currently live in the Phoenix, AZ area. While we all aspire to greatness in our youth, the reality is that most of us just have simple, regular lives that pass by all too quickly leaving us wondering where the time went and how we got where we are today. We have experienced no great revelations or extraordinary escapades, but rather a steady passage from one day to the next dealing with each day's activities, problems and triumphs as they arose. Like millions of others, this is the story of my life as well. For me, that passage has been largely pleasant serving up a good variety of people, places and things to occupy my mind and provide a feeling of accomplishment. My journey has taken me from Chicago to Fairbanks, Alaska, back to Chicago, and then to the Phoenix, Arizona valley where I live now. After graduating high school I occupied myself by going to college for a while, which I absolutely hated. I decided to leave school and worked in advertising for a few years, getting married in 1970. A short time later I moved into medical administration/office management where I worked for over 20 years occasionally taking time off to give birth to three children. Looking for something different, I left medicine and explored a variety of business genres from gift baskets to construction before settling into my current role of managing a small business while researching and selling promotional advertising products. What I learned is that no job is as easy or straight forward as it seems, whether it is supporting the practice standards of physicians, reviewing business expenses, or being a stay-at-home mother. Luckily this also means that there is always something...Expand for more