Beyond Business as Usual
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I was born to two very smart parents with a penchant for reading, the arts, and camping.
To be honest, while I love being outdoors, for the most part I’ll take a pass on sleeping in a tent.
I have talked trade with camel herders in Rajasthan at the Pushkar Camel Fair; worked with children in displacement camps in Iraq; communed with Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda; ridden on the back of a horse while he swam through a deep river in Costa Rica and have seriously studied hula dancing in Hawaii.
![A herd of horses at sunset](https://sterlingmarketinggroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-Jingle-copy-1024x927.jpg)
![A group of camel herders](https://sterlingmarketinggroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/3-Wise-Men-copy-1024x799.jpg)
![A mountain gorilla](https://sterlingmarketinggroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Gorilla-Rwanda-1024x690.jpg)
![A Hawaiian totem pole](https://sterlingmarketinggroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Wood-Guy-copy.jpg)
![Red tomatoes](https://sterlingmarketinggroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/tomato-crop-1024x833.jpg)
I’ve attended cooking school in Bologna, Italy – where grandmothers dressed in all black yelled at me in Italian because my pasta was not thin enough;
I learned how to make a mean breakfast frittata in Paris, and once stole a piece of dark chocolate from the kitchen at a meditation retreat – try not to judge me too harshly: I was desperate.
![Breakfast in Paris](https://sterlingmarketinggroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Waiter.jpg)
![Skyscrapers with a lake view](https://sterlingmarketinggroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Cherry-Blossom-NYC-Square-copy-1024x1024.jpg)
I’ve sung and danced in dozens of community musicals, exhibited my photos and artwork in shows across the U.S. and once I got lost in Bloomingdales in NYC – proving once and for all that I really do not have a good sense of direction.
![Shopping in NYC](https://sterlingmarketinggroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Women-Taxi-copy-1024x768.jpg)
![Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan, NYC](https://sterlingmarketinggroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Watertower-copy-4-1024x996.jpg)
I believe I’m here to express my own creativity and support others in expressing theirs.
![Creativity](https://sterlingmarketinggroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Heart-Leaf.jpg)