Occupation: Office Manager at 44 North Financial Partners

Member since: October 2017 (Had to look this up on the Club website. Seems like forever and yet seems like yesterday)

Have you served on a committee, the Board, Officer position? Please detail: Served on the Board, as Treasurer, as Clerk and as Sergeant of Arms

Why The Portland Club?: Was looking to join a book club, but found this instead. Loved the idea that it wasn’t for the elite, but a place where anyone can belong and everyone is valued.  

Strangest thing in your car right now: Bungee cords and duct tape. No zip ties though.

Biggest Pet Peeve: Drinks or butts on the pool tables!

Favorite meal – where and what: Sushi feast at Yosaku with lots of sashmi and sake martinis

Favorite beer: Allagash Interlude – my son works there

Favorite cocktail: bourbon Manhattan ever since we had that whiskey tasting at the Club

Celebrity crush: Dave Matthews – I just love him, sigh

Top 3 favorite music groups: Led Zeppelin, Little Feat, Traffic

What food do you crave most often?: Ice cream, popcorn, sushi

Favorite holiday: Christmas, but I need to readjust my thinking to a better way to celebrate it. Its been disappointing for a while. Also I want to start to celebrate my birthday. It often gets overlooked by me and others. I need to fix that.

Favorite sports teams: Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox – so predictable, I know

Hidden talent: I can read your mind….You are thinking “Bullshit” right now. See? I’m good!

Last thing you binge-watched: The White Lotus (HBO) and Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu) and 100 ft Wave (HBO)

It’s a super-hot day – what do you want to be doing and where?: Floating on the water. Maybe on a boat, maybe a tube, maybe my paddleboard. Might be in the ocean or a lazy river. Definitely with a drink in my hand, and hopefully with a Pool Person ready to refill my drink

It’s snowing big, fat flakes with no wind – what do you want to be doing and where?: Snowshoeing through the woods in VT

One surprising thing about yourself: I am old, I am 129 years old. I might be immortal.

What was your best Halloween costume?: I was Cruella deVille

Craziest job you ever had: I was a lifeguard in Hawaii for a summer