I was born the youngest of three in a blue-collar working class family in The Bronx, New York.  I looked up to my older brothers, 6 and 8 years older than me.    I graduated high school, and stayed in NY for college, receiving my Bachelor’s Degree in speech therapy from CCNY.  Continuing on I finished my Master’s Degree in audiology from CUNY at age 22.  I always say that New York is a great place to be from and a great place to visit, but I was ready to move on and so I said….”California here I come” and moved to Los Angeles. 

My first job was as an audiologist as I began my adult life in sunny Southern California.  I love the outdoors and the weather can’t be beat.  As we like to say, it’s another monotonously beautiful day…. although sometimes it gets a little shaky- just to keep us on our toes. 

I met my husband, Lenny here in LA.  We had a whirlwind courtship and were married in less than a year.  Twenty-two years later I can still say we did it right.  We have two wonderful children, Brian and Rachel.  When Brian came along, I left my job to be a stay-at-home Mom.  I was fortunate to be home with my children for all of their young lives.  Although our family is across the country, we are very close.  We talk all the time and visit as often as we can. 

I chose to go back to work part-time about seven years ago.  I took a job as the Finance Manager of a non-profit mental health center.  It was a busy and exciting position as we saw over 500 clients per week and we were a training center for therapists.  Lenny kept asking me to quit and come and work with him, but I guess I just wasn’t ready.  I was enjoying my second career too much. 

Well, that all changed last January.  I left my job and came home to work full time with Lenny and OFG.  I spend part of my day talking to agents about OFG and part of my day managing Lenny’s business and paperwork (he is one of those agents with OFG).  So I guess I have just started my third career.  I feel as though I have just moved into a whole new phase of my life.  My son is away at college, and my daughter has one more year of High School before she goes away.  So we are soon to be empty nesters. 

It’s a good thing that Lenny and I enjoy working together as we spend a lot of each day together!  We have less time constraints with both of us home.  We get to walk every day in the hills around our home.  We both feel fortunate to be able to work at home and be together.  We have applied to raise a guide dog puppy (I guess we’ll have more free time with no kids at home).  We will be traveling more, and we are starting this year with a trip to Cancun, and then a cruise to Alaska.  I hope what’s still to come is as wonderful as what has gone before.  I feel blessed to have such a wonderful life.  I think the best is yet to come.