Patricia Shechter:  

Life After two years in Connecticut, I returned to the place I've always felt most at home: The San Francsisco Bay Area, in October 2011. I'm now living in Hayward with my 2 cats, Spooky & Geoffrey, ages 9.5 & 9 y.o, respectively, & I'm planning to move to Berkeley this fall. I've become active once again at Holy Spirit Parish / Newman Hall, where I was baptized, confirmed & received first Eucharist nearly 37 years earlier. I'm trying to devote myself to writing full-time in the areas of theology and spirituality. I have a blog, radicalcatholicmusings, that I update every few days. I LOVE being back in the SF Bay Area!!! It really is home, & I realize that I was a bit foolish not to move back sooner. But there were good reasons to stay back in New England, all of which are named "family." In September 2009, I had moved back to my home city of Hartford, Connecticut, where I retired on Social Security Disability. I remained in CT to be near my mother; when she died in January 2011, I decided to move back to the Bay Area. Prior to moving back to Hartford, I spent 23 years in graduate study and working in the Boston area and nearly 14 years in the San Francisco Bay Area where I both studied and taught theology. I received my Master's degree in Systematic Theology, specializing in Feminist and Liberation Theology. I'm still politically progressive, focusing most of my activism now in areas concerned with animals, the environment, disability rights, rights of lesbian / gay / bisexual / transgendered persons, and peace and justice. After 15 years at Harvard University, I accepted a new position in early December 2002 in the Division of Women's Health / Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. I worked there until early March 2009, when the bad economy resulted in my being laid off. In my non-work time, I taught and occasionally preached in the progressive Catholic community in Boston to which I b...Expand for more