Valerie Humphreys:  

Life I work as a minister at a Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia, where the Masters Tournament in golf is played every April. My daughter, Kaetlin, is a teenager and keeps me busy with her soccer, basketball, and band practices. She is the greatest joy of my life, although she is not into school like I was. My husband, Bela, had a couple of motorcycle accidents this year (April and July). That challenged our whole family. My dream is to return to Washington State (actually the Western side), where three of my six siblings live, when my daughter graduates from high school. Workplace After spending the summer of 1988 in Kentucky, where I saw fireflies for the first time, I worked as a college chaplain for a year at a private Presbyterian college in Sherman, Texas, called Austin College. I loved my job with a passion. I guess the only negatives about the job were the tarantulas that I often found in my office and the awful smell that came from the nearby plant, which permeated everything in Sherman. I found that many of the professors were fascinating. I enjoyed getting to know them and to learn about their studies and their lives. During my internship there for ten months, I got to know more than half of the 1200+ members of the student body. I have ...Expand for more