Valerie HOPKINS

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Meet Jonel and Jenna

Tell us a little bit about yourselves. Jenna is a music teacher in Northern Maine. Her main instrument is the saxophone. Many evenings and weekends are spent balancing getting outside to walk and getting together with other musicians to play in a variety of different...

Introducing ReConnect

Introducing ReConnect

As many of you know, I was recognized as a "Woman of Interest" and featured in an interview by April and Jessica of ReConnect last week. How cool is that? What an honor! After talking with them a bit about their goals and their reason for starting their group, I was...

Meet Jennifer

Meet Jennifer

Tell us a little bit about yourself. As a kid, I was always active and outside. I would spend all day outside on the weekends and even then, my parents would have to drag me in at night.  My favorite story is about this one time when I wanted to go out and play after...

Meet Jill

Tell us a little bit about yourself. My husband Bill and I have been married for 24 years, and we have three Australian Shepherds, Odin (age 8), his brother from the same mother Granite (soon-to-be 7), and our rescue Taylor (age 5-ish). We live in Central...

Meet Tamara

Meet Tamara

Tell us a little bit about yourself: I'm 62 and live in NW Pennsylvania with my 2nd husband Andy. I was born in Compton California in 1957.  Spent first 17 years of my life in a Religious Cult. (Thanks mom) ? I walked/ran away at 17 years old and for the next 17 plus...

A “Real” Imposter

A “Real” Imposter

“Imposter syndrome can be defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident success. 'Imposters' suffer from chronic self-doubt and a sense of intellectual fraudulence that override any feelings of success or external proof of their...