VIV Moments

Hometown

Park City, UT

Joie de VIVre

My family, my friends, my job, living in the mountains.

VIV Moment

My VIV Moment happens every time I look at the small collection of items on my desk in my office. They represent a six-year journey from the person I used to be to the person I am now.

Like most women, I have always been many things to many people: daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend and co-worker. Six years ago, in the space of two months, two people close to me died. One was old and at the end of a long life, the other died suddenly and unexpectedly while I was with her. Both of these events made me think very hard about those things I had wanted to do in my life but had not yet done.

I had three goals that I really wanted to accomplish: more education, a higher level of fitness and a new place to live that was less hectic than the Washington, D.C. area where I then resided.

The small items I have on my desk are now reminders of success in achieving two of those goals: a pin from the scientific honor society to which I was admitted during graduate school, a pin that the University of Maryland presented to me upon receiving my master’s degree, and two medals I received when I completed the Marine Corps Marathon two years in a row.

The view from my office window represents success in achieving my final goal: Each day at work, I have the pleasure of looking out at the mountains surrounding Park City, UT, where my family and I moved three years ago.

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