Debra Wells:  

It seems I should let those lovely people who contacted me after the reunion which, unfortunately, I couldn't attend, have some kind of profile. I'll be as brief as possible (which is rare). I've been in Canada since '73, having spent a couple of horrible years in GA after graduation. I've worked at the university here in Classical Studies, thence to a publishing company in Detroit as an editor in Contemporary Literary Criticism for 30 years, in various capacities. I worked at Joe Louis Arena for the Red Wings organization for 5 years. Since I couldn't afford to buy the pricey tickets, I decided to get a job. It was an outstanding experience but I left when things became less so. Thanks to outsourcing, I was involuntarily retired from what is now Cengage Learning. I have a family of people, am passionate about animals, have furthered a long-standing love of growing beautiful plants and am never bored, having simply adjusted my focus to things I care about profoundly rather than those required to earn a living. That, of course, means the living earned is, well, far less than it might otherwise be, but I've become happier and more content with simplifying my surroundings and existence in general. I still love to dance and still do it well. Music is the underpinning of things, as are books and movies. Love the classics: Twain, Stevenson, Hawthorne, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck et al. NO romance novels. NO chick flicks. I prefer Marvel, DC, Mission Impossible, Star Trek--adventures!! Everyone these days is into sweary-disgusting, talentless people who talk their "songs", can't sing, and shame the music biz in general. I'm back in the day. People tell me So-and-So is "immortal". I tell them Clapton is immortal. Where is So-and-So now? Don't like slow and...Expand for more