Kathleen Mathews:  

By the way, my "Now" photo was taken when I was about 30. :o) Although I won a 4-year NYS Regents Scholarship and planned to go to SUNY Cortland, having no funds for room & Board, I instead chose to move with Lorraine Mullin to the Washington, DC, area right after high school (now, how dumb was that?); we lived with her father, step-mother and step-brother; she stayed two weeks and went back to Adams - came down again later and went back to Adams (Lorraine now lives in Triangle, VA); I immediately went to work for the National Geographic Society; got married in '65 (to Lorraine's step-brother (now, how dumb was that?); we separated in '70 and divorced in '72; have not remarried; have worked for law firms from 1970 to present; have 2 cats, Blackie and Fluffy, a Maine Coon cat; moved from a 4-BR house in the Maryland suburbs to a 2-BR condo in Arlington, VA, in 2006, and went from a 1-1/2 hr. commute (distance 21 miles) to a half hour commute as my condo building is virtually on top of a Metrorail station; no longer have a car - use the subway, the bus or rent Zipcars by the hour when there's a need to; am looking forward to retiring at 66 - let's see...that's NOW!! Will be retiring by the end of August 2011. (Update on retirement, although I am "retired" from being a legal secretary at the firm, I have stayed on to help our Marketing Department with a big project. I expect to be here for some time - it is currently ...Expand for more