Ann Ilton:  

BA,MA, Englist Lit. Married an architect four weeks out of college had 2 children, won national beauty contest??? Oh my. An accidental tourist. Really. National speaker.Taught in a yeshiva. Taught English. Hated it. Was a librarian. Administrator zionist organization. Administrator government. Very active Democrat. Liberal. Very liberal. Very concerned about helping nation realize humane goals. Daughter died suddenly 1980 at almost twenty. Great tragedy. Life changing event.Became a college administrator Ramapo College Mahwah New Jersey. Divorced. I left. Started again. Married the most wonderful man in 1989.. Son is a college professor in Oregon. Just became a grandmother to Jacen. Very lovely for all of us. Write poetry, essays, et al. Collected art. Cook a lot Like a good cocktail Love great conversation Happy to be who I am and where I am I guess I am spiritual but try not to spill it on others. Write books, don't know how to publish them. Not at all flaky or artsy. Very stable. Very interested in a plethora of things.Love the world of ideas. Loved building and furnishing houses. Now all sold.Don't like not having the bucks now to do that since we are both incurable collectors. Did it and enjoyed it all. Would do it again as long as their is no pretense. I do like pretensiousness. Like real people. Not sure what that means. No phonies I guess Haven't met a great recipe or wine or cocktail I don't want to try. Very serious person. Very zany. See life through the prism of Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Albert Einstein, Freud and Golda Meir. A very conventional unconventional person. Sorry I did not finish a Phd and study philosophy and become a psychologist, Analyzing is a challenge to me. Read Agatha Christie nightly to sleep. The comfort of an orderly mystery and civilized people is relaxing. Am appalled by violence. Sort of look up to the Dalai Lama. Am happy I always wanted to be a rabbi pr writer or psychologist when I gr...Expand for more