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#1: Gator (Gator) on Nov 4, 2009

Congratulations Teresa!

Way to go Teresa! And a fun puzzle to boot. :)

Thanks, Gator and Sallie.

Awesome! That's really wonderful. Congratulations.
Nice image and fun solve too. :)

Congratulations! I still have a year or so to go to get my degree. Age doesn't matter - you're never too old to learn!

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Congrats!

Awesome puzzle too :)

Thanks for your entry and for sharing another "piece" of your puzzle!
Go girl!

Wonderful puzzle. Great joy is evident! Congratuations, it also took me a long time to complete my BA. It felt SO good!

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i thought that there will be a computer monitor above. however it turns out to be your head:) conguratilations

Thanks, everyone! Martin, that's the way I felt on the inside more than how I looked on the outside. I felt young and alive. Actually I still feel young and alive, and I am always surprised when I look in the mirror and catch a glimpse of a tired old lady looking back at me. :-)

What a girl! Thanks Teresa for a fun puzzle and the history behind it!

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:-D That too.

You GO, Girl!

Nice puzzle, as always. Thanks.

Thanks, Clarabelle.

Congrats! You should be extremely proud of yourself!

Thanks, Wendy.

politically correct = personally compromised

Great puzzle! What did you study? What are you doing with your degree?

Thanks, Ellen. I got a BA in social services and studied psychology, grief, child development, behavioral health, and specialized classes in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (my area of expertise).

With my degree I was able to become one of the first certified FASD trainers in the U.S. and am currently the FASD coordinator for the state of Arizona, and work with the federal govt. through the SAMHSA FASD Center for Excellence.

My most important work is with the families I help through the local support group and the larger internet support groups online and through my web site on FASD. My favorite family is my own, as I continue to advocate for two of my adult children. You can see pictures and read a front page news story about my wonderful kids here:

http://come-over.to/FAS/news/supportgroup/

Congratulations, not only on graduating (which is awesome) but also on finding a vocation you so clearly love.

Thank you, Janice.

congratulations (sorry it is late)
fantastic puzzle

Thanks, Bugaboo.

congratulations! i'm happy for you! great puzzle and gives me inspiration.

Wondeful, Teresa! (Both the puzzle and the achievement.)

I started in the McGill B.A. program at the usual age of 17, which is what girls did in those days. I was a disinterested student and dropped out after 2 years. Then I discovered accounting -- who knew? -- at the time only 10% of practising accountants were women -- and earned my professional designation before there existed a requirement to have a university degree. Then I enrolled on three other separate occasions in two different universities in two cities, working full time, raising three children, and going to school at night. Each time I registered, the course requirements had changed and some courses I had previously taken were disallowed. I passed 28.5 courses toward a 20-course degree over 29 elapsed years, but I finally earned a B.Comm. (Hons.) when I was 46. So I get it, and I commend you. I'm late with the congratulations, but they're heartfelt nonetheless.

Thanks, Lollipop. And congratulations to you too!

Very cool story.

Thanks, Teresa and Jan. I didn't tell my tale to pat myself on the back, but to let Teresa know that I really do appreciate her effort and her accomplishment.

By the way, here's the kicker for me: By the time I got to my last enrolment, I had earned so many accounting. commerce, and management credits through my professional accreditation and previous college adventures that I was permitted more electives than usual, so what did I choose? Why, the general arts courses that I had found so tedious the first time I had the chance -- linguistics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, calculus, and music history. I think the old saying that youth is wasted on the young was particularly true in my case (especially since my parents were paying my tuition the first time around!).

And Jan, it's so nice to have you officially back on the site. Thank you so much for WebPBN.

Other projects and other demands still loom. I expect to get distracted away again before long.

An impressive story and life. You have my utmost admiration, Teresa.

And it's a cool puzzle.

Thank you so much, Judy. Your comment delights me and I am moved to make an anagram puzzle just for you. Stay tuned.

Congratulations!! Wonderful image as well.

Thank you, Velma.

My goodness, Teresa...I missed this the first time around. Let me get in the long line of people to congratulate you! I may be a little late to that party, but still a great admirer of your grit, determination and accomplishments. You are doing a great job out there both in the world and at home. Brava, my friend whom I would love to meet someday. Lol...I wish we could have mini meet-ups.

Thank you, JoDeen! I would love to meet you too!! Graduation seems so long ago. It helped begin my career as consultant, trainer, and director of the FASD program for the State of Arizona, from which I've been retired for over a year. Let me know if you ever come to Tucson. I'd love to show you around my beautiful city. This time of year is perfect! It's 76 F right now and the birds are singing outside my window.

I am very late too, but: Congrats, Teresa! This is awesome!!!

JoDeen - I too wonder if the group could manage a meet-up. I'd be so curious to meet people!

I can't travel much because of my youngest kid, but this year my middle kid and I were visiting colleges, and I kept wondering if there were PBNers nearby who I should have looked up.

Thank you, Valerie. Maybe we could do a virtual meet-up on Skype or Zoom. I know I can't travel (because of my kids) but it would be fun for us all to get to know each other better.

Hi Teresa. Perdona que te escriba tan tarde y en español, pero recién hoy encontré tu puzzle y leí tu historia (y la de Lollipop). Quiero decirte que me emocioné y me alegré mucho al conocer tu experiencia. También vi las fotos con tus hijos, y tu sonrisa lo dice todo. Te envío un gran abrazo.
By the way, tus puzzles son mis favoritos y este es magnífico.

I was curious what you said, Gonzalo, so I ran it through Google Translate. In English it says:

"Hi Teresa. Sorry to write to you so late and in Spanish, but just today I found your puzzle and read your story (and Lollipop's). I want to tell you that I was excited and very happy to learn about your experience. I also saw the photos with your children, and your smile says it all. I send you a big hug.
By the way, your puzzles are my favorites and this one is magnificent."

Also I thought it was interesting to see comments about meeting up just a couple of weeks before the world closed down for the pandemic. Sigh....

I know, Valerie...I'm so tired of this pandemic. I'm so frustrated by the anti-maskers and anti-vaxers. We could be on the other side of this if everyone would do his/her part. One of my daughters works on a covid ward. Every single patient there, let me repeat that...every single patient there is an anti-vaxer. They have yet to see a patient who has gotten the vaccine who has developed a case of covid bad enough to require hospitalization. On the other hand, this same ward runs out of body bags on a regular basis...because these anti-vaxers keep dying from their illness. It's a good week if less than 5 of their 28 patients die. These are not old people. These are people in their 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's.

Anyway, I'll be glad when we DO get to the other side of this pandemic, DESPITE the idiots that don't care about the US as a whole. Sorry about the rant. On almost every other subject, I'm reasonably tolerant.

Many years later but congratulations! Nice puzzle, too.

Gonzalo, thank you so much for your sweet comment.

JoDeen, I'm with you 100%. So here we are in 2023, and still looking for "the other side." My three "kids" and myself are fully vaccinated and then some, and we all still are wearing KN95 masks in public. None of us have caught COVID (or the flu, or RSV) yet.

Karen, thank you.

Us too. My kids and I are fully vaccinated. My middle kid caught Covid at college last year from his roommate, but the rest of us haven't had it yet. My youngest has too much autism to wear a mask, but the rest of us always still mask when we are around people, even though it feels like very few other people are still doing that. And we continue to avoid stores, restaurants, offices, the dentist, etc. Though Corbin (my youngest) recently went back to school, and since he can't mask I am fully expecting all the plagues of the world to reach us soon. Sigh.

Bravo

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