About Me!

I grew up in Nazareth, a quaint town in eastern Pennsylvania that is known for its pizza, famous racecar drivers, high school wrestling, and perpetual gossipers.  It is very possible I may have been the biggest gossip whore of all.  When your father is the judge and your grandfather is the mayor, you are bound to find out everyones juicy secrets.  My love of gossip went hand in hand with my love to talk, and I put it to good use throughout high school.  I was Student Government President, a class officer, on the homecoming court, and was involved in just about any other program or committee the school had to offer.  Except sports….my athletic abilities are less than stellar, and do not warrent further mention.

By the time I graduated in 2001, it was time to leave the family and the farm animals back in Nazareth and travel to the big city of Pittsburgh for college.  College was everything I imagined it would be; sorority events and frat parties, cheap beer, tailgates, heated political discussions (especially when John Kerry ran for President in 2004), all nighters at the library, never ending paper deadlines, and thousands upon thousands of pages of Locke, Herodotus and more of the greats.  Pittsburgh is a great city with a thriving nightlife, a fabulous cultural district and more hospitals that I can count.  But by the time I earned by BA in history in 2005, it was time to leave the steel city.

My boyfriend and I moved to West Hartford, Connecticut a few weeks after we graduated.  I had never even visited Connecticut until the day I moved into my apartment, and moving in with a guy I had dated long distance for a year and a half….I knew I was in for an experience.  Justin had taken a job months ago as an actuary at the Hartford Insurance Company, but I came to Connecticut jobless.  Luckily, I was able to find a job at a Museum almost immediately.  After I did my internship at the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, I was positive that museum work was for me, even if one day you are writing grants and the  next day you are scrubbing toilets….

After being in Connecticut for about a year, Justin and I decided to buy a house in West Hartford.  We spent months painting, fixing, buying furniture, decorating and redecorating, but we were only in the house about a month before we bought Crisco, our ridiculous looking hairball of a dog.  People are always commenting that they have never seen anything quite like Crisco.  As soon as we purchased the house, I signed up for graduate school.  I took a year off between undergraduate and graduate just to make sure Connecticut was the place for us.  And it is.  I am currently working on my masters in public history, and hope to be done soon!  After living together for three years, Justin and I finally got married in August 2008.  We spent 11 days in Hawaii, and if it was not for graduate school, it it very possible I might not have come back.

In my spare time, I like to read, work out, drink wine, shop (its an obsession), visit Museums and other historical sites, go to plays and other shows, watch sports,  participate in political discussions, and oh yeah, did I mention shop?

I hope you learned a little bit about me!