My name is Denise (she/her) and I live in a coastal city in northeast Massachusetts. This city is known both for being the birthplace of the United States Coast Guard and for the clipper ships that were built on our coast for many years.
I have a husband, three cats and three kids. Two of my kids live with me, but my oldest is a fully-functioning adult living with their partner about an hour and a half away from us. My middle child starts high school this year and my youngest is starting middle school.
I work as a library assistant in the high school in my city- the same high school my middle child will be going to this year. This is my second year at the high school, and before this I was the library assistant at the elementary school.
My ideal future job would be working in a middle/high school library in a non-teaching position. I’m coming to the library world a bit late in the game and don’t want to add more classes after graduation from SJSU.
For fun I like to knit, crochet, do jigsaw puzzles, listen to music, go to the beach, and nap.
This is Muska. He is about six years old and we adopted him a year ago. We found out in June that he has terminal kidney cancer. He’s made it through the summer but it looks like he will not be with us much longer.
This is Luna. We adopted her the day after Thanksgiving in 2020 when she was about six months old. She is high strung and anxious, and also struggling with some medical issues that arose this summer. We are treating her anxiety and working on a treatment plan for the other things at this time.
This is Nigel. We adopted him in August of 2020 when he was about 16 weeks old. He is the most easygoing of our cats- and thankfully has no medical issues at this time.