In her late 40's (a delicate phrase for a sturdy age) this strong woman has been through the wringer, and reinvented it along the way.  A wife, mother and step-grandma, Kim has gone back to school and is due to graduate with honors the Spring of 2006.  As a crocheter who learned to knit and quilt over the BBS system (pre-Internet days) from Jane Devlin, friend and knitting guru extraordinaire, Kim also cooks, gardens (when the poison ivy is at bay), paints, plays piano, sings, dances, swims, reads, writes bad poetry and blows her own horn with abandon (and teaches others to do the same!) 

 

"There is ALWAYS an answer, though most of the time it takes help to find it.  The keys to success are learning to ask others if there's anything they know that you should, being able to laugh at yourself, and remembering that your successes are the products of many other people and that your failures are even more valuable because they give you more ideas and directions than your successes do!  Look at everything from as many POV's as possible.  Cultivate yourself.  Write your own life-story, and be your own hero."