Literary Journalism Blog Post 3
Today I interviewed junior marketing major, journalism minor Taylor Reschke. Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, Reschke considers herself to be a city girl surrounded by tall buildings and people. She considers Chicago her city as well as her home. On the contrast between Los Angeles and Chi-Town, she appreciated the former’s nice weather, good vibes and its beach. However, she realized that nothing compared to Chicago’s suburbs.
On where she decided to pursue her undergraduate degree, she considered both Tulane University in New Orleans and the University of Illinois, but as soon as she stepped foot off of the bus at Loyola Marymount — she knew that she had found her second home.
Post graduation, and despite her major of choice, Taylor does not plan on going into the marketing field. She ultimately plans to focus on her journalism minor and pursue work in this field before attending graduate school. Though her ultimate career goal is to be a therapist, she plans to focus on being a journalist and switching over to therapy when she is ready.
Reschke’s concept of a family was insightful, and her actual family’s dynamic is unconventional. “My family is super complicated. I grew up with divorced parents so my concept of family was kind of skewed a little bit…a very dysfunctional family so what I’m hoping to do is create my own that is completely different from what I experienced,” she explained.
Reschke plans to create a family for herself that is healthy and thriving. She also comes from a blended family with various ethnicities. Both of her nephews — Leo, aged seven, and Stone aged one, are both black, and both were adopted by her sister through an organization that specializes in housing children temporarily for emergency situations.
Most of the families that adopt through this organization are only expected to house the children for a few days, but Reschke’s family was an exception from this norm. “These two boys, they came through our lives and we just fell in love with them, and they needed homes. So, it was kind of like a perfect little love story. They’re the only men I need in my life,” she jokes.
