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Mom with brother Ric, above and with Dad, below. Dad passed away in November of 2004.

Sheila’s Space

Welcome to my personal pages. You’ll find links here to the portions of my life that don’t include Spencer. At the present time those would be stuff about my body image and body work including yoga, my inclusion in the book Pride & Joy and my 50th birthday party (Dec,. ‘99)

You may want to know more about my personal history to get you started. I was born in Newport, Rhode Island in December, 1949. My only sibling, Ric is five years younger then me and lives with his wife and three daughters in the house we grew up in. We spent a week together during our New England tandem tour in 2001. My Mom is living in Del Rey Beach, Florida, where she and my Dad retired. Dad passed away in November, 2004. I generally make a trip to visit every winter.

I graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1971 with a BS in Textiles and Clothing. I never worked in the field, instead going directly overseas to serve as a Recreation Center Director for the US Army in Korea and Germany. After eight years overseas I returned to the US and worked for the YMCA in Arizona for a year and then in Seattle for five more years. After that I spent three years as Program Director for the Seattle Center, creating their Winterfest and annual Ice Rink (among other events). Then I started my first business, Community Events Managment. I produced the NW Aids Foundations walk-a-thon in 1988 and wrote their operations manual. After several years of large-scale community events I transitioned my business to graphic design.

You can see samples of my print and web design work at my business website. I love the flexability of working at home. Though having one’s own business is always a bit of a roller-coaster ride. My brother Ric and I are in a partnership offering our clients affordable web-hosting. Ric calls his business Hoffman Web Hosting.

Besides tandeming, I enjoy anything computer-related (I’m a geek) and of course I love doing yoga and reading.

I was the first elected board member to the new Braeburn condo board and I’m enjoying helping to establish this budding community.