Hello everybody. I’m just returning to Mayo Clinic Connect, after quite a long absence. I have always valued my connection here and it’s benefitted me in so many ways over past years. As with many of you, I have a long list of health issues, but I love life and I’m as active as is possible, and feel much younger than my 90 years.
I have three wonderful sons and their wives, four adult grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren, and they’re the centre of my universe!
Most of my working life I was a Legal Secretary and then Legal Office Supervisor, but once I retired from that, I attended art school for 5 years and had a successful career as a professional artist and teacher. I even managed to work for years online and at various colleges and universities to finally, this May, earn my Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree.
My interests used to be painting, hiking, climbing mountain trails in the Canadian Rockies, horse back riding, plus lots of pets, and reading. Sadly, I’m reduced to only that last category now, reading! Oh, but I’ve begun painting in watercolours again too, and am feeling so enthused and happy about that!