Deborah Kearney:  

Living in the Catskill Mountains where my greatest memory is my daughter running through the field of wildflowers behind the house, only her curly yellow head showing as she runs. I love my life! I really enjoy the flowers in my garden and sitting outside on hot summer nights. I miss my son terribly! He is 41, married, and lives in Chapel Hill, NC. My DIL is a smart and tough cookie that completes the man he is. I love her! No grandkids, just a Great Dane grandpup named Kaiju and lots of cats down there! After pretty much raising him alone, I remarried and had my daughter when he was a senior in high school. The down side of that is that was old enough to be the mother of the Girl Scout leader! I have no patience with young mothers (forgive me!) School Oh! How I hated High School! I was worse than a round peg in a square hole - I was 1/2 geek, 1/2 freak. But if I could do it all over again, I think I could certainly do it better! College Ended a relationship, quit my job and moved my son & me to Delhi in August of 1989. Worked 3 Part-time jobs, started my own business - bookkeeping & Income Tax. Earned AAS - Accounting; earned High Honors 3.91 Cum at graduation. Phi Theta Kappa. Attended SUC at Oneonta and earned BS-Economics in December of 93. I loved this challenge too, but by then I knew I'd never be happy as a CPA and changed direction. I proved I could do it, got my piece of paper. No regrets. Ha! to Mr. Lang, who wrote me off. THANK YOU!! to Mr. Gallagher, who tried to tell me that there WAS something out there just for me; who told me that I could do ANYTHING! Workplace Worked in electronics for many years as a prototype wirer , and I really enjoyed that. But in the 80's I realized that I had peaked, and so I decided to go to college. I started bookkeeping and taking classes. By 89' wanted to 'hurry up!', so I quit working and went to school full time. My original goal was to obtain my CPA, but in the end I decided not ...Expand for more