I am 54, a very mid-century woman with a mid-century name. (I mean who names their kid Judy anymore?) I don’t feel fifty four and age has never meant much to me and they say that fifty is the new 30. The important thing is that I have led and continue to have a very colorful life. I grew up as a Navy Brat, lived in all the best beach towns across the country, am the oldest of five sisters and a brother, and married for the second time a man I met on Match.com. Together my husband Duane and I have two grown children and four kids in college! We live in Atlanta with three Basset Hounds and two cats, in a cool loft on the Belt-line, a mile from Downtown Atlanta.
Back in the day, I went to UC Berkeley, I have a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and had a successful private practice. In the early nineties, I started a company to develop medical records software for psychiatric hospitals. After selling the company, I just wasn’t up for going back to sitting in a room for hour after hour seeing clients, so I took the plunge to develop real estate on a full-time basis. That had been my creative outlet on the side throughout my life (tree houses to doll houses to beach houses) and I absolutely love designing and building. I have done several major projects over the past eight years. That has been very fun but now that the real estate market is in the weeds, I am taking a little break from building my own buildings and doing designing and building for others. I especially love doing kitchens, art studios and commercial spaces.
When Duane and I started rattling around the house once our kids moved out, we started a bed and breakfast out of our Atlanta Loft called, The Urban Oasis. There are the Southern Victorian doily types kinds of B and B opportunities here in Atlanta but I think there is a market for a more urban experience. We’ll see… But maybe it should be called a Bed and Chocolate Martini? We also have a wonderful little gulf-front beach house, Southern Breeze unit 4, in Navarre Beach that we rent out. For fun, Duane and I have become Tango Junkies and go dancing every chance we get.
This blog is my musings on all of the above and more. So if you are interested in what to do with the rest of your life; are looking to find love, work and past-times you adore; think that Basset hounds are sweet and amusing, like to dance or would like to dance, or just want to know more about life in the ATL then hop on for the ride.
