iSound

I was raised in Wyoming surrounded by family who never missed a chance to nurture and encourage my ambitions. Growing up, choir class was my favorite and it taught me that I needed a creative outlet. When High School graduation rolled around, I didn’t question what the next step in my life would be. I was taught that with a good education success would come out of a respectable job. So I went off to college and pursued a degree, even though I wasn’t quite sure where I fit into the world. But I stayed true to my creative side and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design. Eventually, I moved to the East Coast certain that the big city was the life for me, but shortly thereafter my husband joined the United States Navy and my aspirations took a backseat to his duty orders. I learned to make do wherever we landed and stayed flexible to suit the priority of his career. Inevitably he was deployed to the Arabian Gulf and I was left alone to reflect. I realized that I had ne...