User:Cathie454

I am from Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. I've lived here all my life, and both my parents were also from here, which is rather uncommon for an Anglo family here.

I worked for 34 years as an RN, 16 of those years in Intensive Care Nurseries. I then went on to work as a school nurse, and at a Nurse Advice Line, and with a disease management company, doing educational phone calls to patients, which I really liked. I also worked for two health insurance companies. I always wanted to be a teacher, not a nurse, and did get a BA in Secondary Education but due to the salaries for teachers here being so low, I never could give up being a nurse as I had to support my family.

I am also a writer, writing mostly poetry, and have been published in many poetry journals. Also, I enjoy photography, and I'm an avid reader...I am currently about a third of the way through the second volume of Mark Twain's autobiography, as well as reading "New York Yankees, Then and Now."