Chimere (Angel) Fowler:
CLASS OF 1988
McGavock High SchoolClass of 1988
Nashville, TN
University of LouisvilleClass of 1998
Louisville, KY
Nashville State Technical InstituteClass of 1992
Nashville, TN
Aquinas CollegeClass of 1990
Nashville, TN
Chimere (Angel)'s Story
Life
I hated high school. I did not have any true friends that I hung out with but a lot of acquaintances that I chatted with during classes. Between classes and during lunch breaks, I pretty much stayed to myself in the library. I was not shy or stuck up, just did not want anyone to get too close. I had a secrete to hide. I had seen all too many times people being made fun of for lesser things. Why would I want to expose my achilles heel? You see, I came from a poor family but you would never have known it by the clothing my sister or myself wore. My parents did not know how to manage money effectively or manage a household. They did do their best with the skill level they had at the time. We lived in a house that was ultimately torn down around 1992 due to being unfit and unsafe to live in. It had electricity but no running water or plumbing. If anyone recalls the house on Murfreesboro Road that had the Shoney's Big Boy in the front yard as larger than life yard art.. that would be my parents home. Someone took pity on us and stole it one day. My sister and I was so happy when that happen. I was so ashamed of those things back then. The person I am now is confident and would never be ashamed over something I had no control over. I was never the sharpest tool in the shed either and graduated at the bottom of my my class. That made me feel horrible as a person. I know I am sounding like I'm dogging myself. I'm not. I had to work twice as hard to get out of that spot in my life and I did.
I decided I wanted a different life than my family. I research and asked questions of successful people how they became successful in life. Basically, if you want to be duck, walk like a duck. If you want to be swan, dress and act like a swan. Long story short, I found out quick that I could make A's and B's just like the people I admired. I just never learned how to study. I know that sounds crazy but I really did not know how and my parents did not know how to teach me or that I did not even know how to do it. I kept my my grades above B's. My success came from competing against myself to be a better person each year than the nex...Expand for more
t in mind, body, and spirit. Some years were better than others in areas. It took a long time to sand down the edges and become polished. I'm still working on some of those areas.
I ended up being a transplant coordinator for seven years. During that time period, I lived and breath my work. It was not uncommon to work 60 hour weeks or longer. I saved up my money and put my husband through electrical engineering school. After he graduated, I worked in an operating room in Nashville for a year then went back to college and got my Occupational Therapist degree. I did that a few years before having kids.
As of 11/13/13, I'm married to my first and only husband, we have two sets of twins ages 2.5 and 3 months old, and I am a stay at home mom. It is much harder than any job I ever had. I learned yesterday that kids can and will use nose mucus as wall finger paint. I have a lot of twin stories of their mischief. We live in a fancy subdivision and have a large home. I guess you can say from rags to riches in my mind.
I defiantly dance to the beat of a different drum as well as work hard and play hard... I'm a thrill seeker and have had a lot of fun in my life as well, as seen in a few of the photos I have posted. I have enjoyed doing parachuting, scuba diving, horse back riding, hunting, fishing, skiing, dancing nude around a camp fire, and zip lining. The only thing left on my bucket list is to mountain climb. I hate watching sports. It makes no sense to me. I want in the action, or at least know someone personally who is in the action or I want no part of it. If I'm at a sports bar, it is for the wings, not there to be a couch potato sports watcher.
So even though I did not have close friends in high school. I want everyone to know that I made it. I survived and worked extremely hard and have finely crossed my personal finish line for the first half of my life. Now as I look over at my two perfect infants, I feel like that race has been won. Now I am ready for the second half of my life. It is going to be good. I hope anyone reading this has had a fulling life. If you have not, it is never too late for you to start.
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