Lori Van Decker:  

Life I'll just stick to the basic stats here and spare you the really sordid details: married and divorced twice;no kids. Even now, as I totter on the on the edge of menopause, I have no regrets about my decision not to have kids. I have had lots of pets over the years, though, which have served to address any fragments of maternal instinct that might linger. At the moment, I'm down to a senior beagle, a young calico cat, and a few houseplants. I've done some pretty cool stuff professionally. I currently live in Northeastern PA and work from home in the telecommunications industry. School School? Was I there? People who know me are shocked that I have done so much academically in my adult life, since I certainly was not much of an academic performer as a kid. I more or less slid into academia through alleys and back doors at an advanced age. I never even took SATs, and I only admit to taking GREs if I don't have to own up to my scores. (Shhhh, don't tell; the SAT police might take away some degrees or something!) College After graduating high school, I made somewhat of a peace with the fact that I would never be a dancer again and decided to be practical by majoring in accounting part time at the community college. I graduated eventually, and then went to a four-year school, again part-time, majoring in business. But I found that I liked too many fields outside of business, and I just kept signing up for and taking classes. Before I knew it, I had 187 undergraduate credits, when I only needed 120 to graduate. I got the BA in English from Kean because I'd been accepted by the Rutgers Graduate Englis...Expand for more