My name is Cindy, and this is my website. Currently I am residing back in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. After migrating to several areas over the course of my lifetime I eventually flew back home. I am still trying to figure out what the heck I am doing with my life. Born and raised in western Massachusetts, I sometimes maintain that small-town-girl attitude. You know what they say “You can take the girl out of the country…” So I do say “please,” and “thank-you,” and am known to use the word “wicked” as an adjective to describe just about anything.
After living on Long Island for 25 plus years, I have also developed the “don’t mess with me” and “hurry it up, buddy” attitude that permeates the urban lifestyle with flare. I know all about road rage and traffic jams, but even in the midst of both, I’ve been known to look out the car window and exclaim “Oooh, is that a chickadee or a yellow-bellied sap sucker?”
In a previous life I was a human resources manager for a company on Long Island. I dealt with handling people’s problems for over fifteen years, until one day I realized that I had the biggest problem of all: I couldn’t stand the job anymore.
So, just like in the movie Network, I screamed that I couldn’t take it, (big paraphrase there) and walked right out of the door. Then I stumbled directly into the brick wall of “oh, shit, what did I just do?”
I spent the next two years in complete limbo, sometimes enjoying the ride, and other times too depressed to even think about it. But I survived.
And now I’m moving on. I’ve written a novel that is published on Amazon, and maybe one day it will be in hard print. More of a catharsis, really, the story ended up leading me out of a time in my life when I just wanted to wallow and remain. Funny how stories can do that for us.
In the meantime, I went back to work because I found out that one cannot live on hopes and Haagen-Daz alone. I didn’t go back to the professional atmosphere though. Instead, I drove a school bus and found out that there is a whole other life I never knew about. (check the blog for stories on that subject).
Then I made a decision to move to North Carolina with my niece (Jess) and her two boys (Mikey and Jayden). Making the transition from living alone to living with a family in a totally different geographic area was somewhat of a challenge for me.
But, alas, things didn’t work out as I planned in the Raleigh area. I couldn’t find employment that matched my skills and paid what I am worth. (anyone out there who can relate?) So then I moved from Raleigh to Wilmington, NC and worked as a manager for a restaurant chain. I lived with a cousin and her husband for seven months and enjoyed the time at the beach. But I wasn’t happy.
So another cousin invited me to Geneva, Illinois, and I took her up on the offer. I was in the process of learning what the great state of Illinois was all about, when I was asked to return home to help my sister-in-law open a restaurant. I did that and then took a job with a telecommunications company, where I worked for 8 years.
Many changes came rather quickly after that, some good, some not-so good. And for the most part the details are in this blog.
Ever since I can remember I’ve been a writer, and I’ve most certainly always been a talker. When I was a little girl, my mother called me Chatterbox. I can’t even count the number of times that I was reprimanded in school for talking out of turn. I’m sorry, but sometimes I just have things to say, and, you know, well, I just say them!
For many years my nieces and nephews have been calling me Windy. It all started when I was beckoning my great-nephew (a toddler at the time) to come to me, and I said “Come to Aunt Cindy Windy!” I don’t know why I said that, I guess I was trying to sound enticing. In any event, he did indeed come to me, and the nickname stuck. All in all, I think it’s an appropriate name, since I have been known to be full of wind.
Oh, but don’t be put off yet. I am also full of substance. I have so many beliefs in my “system” that I am sure we will relate on some level. I hope that you will enjoy the content of this website, and I welcome any accolades and praise-worthy comments to my posts.
Please spread the word if you like my site, and feel to click off if you don’t.
(there’s that’s the country/urban mix I told you about).
I’m all about support, and I don’t like haters.
If there’s anything else you want to know about me, check out the site, or e-mail me.
Thank-you, and enough said.