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As it so often does, pulling on one thread of the family tapestry, often unravels a completely unrelated section. While researching a photograph from my archive, I turned to FamilySearch to verify census data addresses in an attempt to hone in on a location for the photo. Imagine my surprise when, clicking up the branches of the family tree, I encountered an alternate profile of my mother, displaying an intimate profile photo of her on her wedding day, that I did not create nor upload.
While school came relatively easy to me, life post-high school graduation did not.
I graduated at seventeen, without the first clue as to what to do with the rest of my life. I had hobbies & interests growing up, of course—primarily writing—but I hadn’t the first idea how to turn that into a career. At the time, I thought the only degrees available to pursue for writers were either Journalism or English and I wasn’t interested in either option. After working on the school newspaper, I knew I didn’t want to be a journalist, chasing down leads or making edits & layouts; and beyond teaching, I didn’t know what other opportunities an English degree could even provide. Like a lot of kids, I played “Teacher” as a child, although I wasn’t overly keen on the idea of being a teacher—particularly because, having had teachers in my family, I knew how overworked, under-appreciated and extremely underpaid the profession is in the United States. All I knew for certain was that I wanted to write stories that connected people to the past. I wanted to show readers that, although it might be ancient history to us, it’s still relevant to today’s world and still influences us and our decisions.