FINDING YOUR PURPOSE: Part IV

Thesis Writing Takes Time

I completed my courses in the Terrorism Studies Masters program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2004. I now had a choice how to earn my Masters degree: to write a thesis or take a comprehensive test.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Finding Your Purpose: Part II

Dr. Jerry Epstein was right. There were no shortages of schools in New York offering a masters program in social work. Columbia and New York University, to name two, had no current plans to shut their well-endowed doors. I was free to pursue my passion: criminal and social justice.

Finding Your Purpose: Part I

These three words-finding your purpose- keep popping up as advice for living a more fulfilling life. I heard them in my thirties when my then-purpose was all-consuming. I was a wife of a husband who travelled for work and mother of a son and daughter who needed a focused, multi-tasking mom to…

Musing while Cruising

Yes, it’s true. Americans are grossly overweight. You see this on the ship’s buffet lines as heavyset people carry trays overfilled with bread, fried foods and desserts. Thin Asians carrying fruit plates tend to stare in shock. Side note: Americans are heavily tattooed as well, though skin ink does not…