Leslie Reunion 1999 home page | Start of family tree | Lorenz page in family tree | Picture (100 k)
DOB 6/16/51
My great great (there maybe a 3rd great too) grandfather was Andrew Leslie (my sister Anne Sullivan knows more about him than I.)
I grew up in both St. Louis and St.Charles Missouri, the youngest of 6 children born to Laura and John Lorenz. I was orphaned at the age of 9 and sent off to The Academy of the Sacred Heart boarding school where I lived and studied from the age of 10 until 18. I received my undergraduate degree in General Studies from the U. of Dayton and my Master's Degree in Culture and Creation Spirituality from Holy Names College in Oakland California. I was married briefly once and am childless by choice. For the past 14 years, I have worked as the Comptroller for a Federal Community Corrections Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Having hated math while I was growing up and never having taken any math classes after Geometry my sophomore year in high school, it amazes me that I got into this line of work.
My hobbies are reading, writing poetry, playing with my dog (Gandhi) a 3 1/2 yr. old Dalmation, the arts, travelling and volunteering at my church. Being a baby boomer and having grown up in the 60's, I consider myself a free spirit and perhaps the black sheep of my immediate family. And although they may think me eccentric, I find joy in diversity and in living life as fully as possible. I am a philosophical extremist who believes that life is about loving, learning, and growing into all we were created to be. For me that often includes doing things others may find absurd. Although as I age, I find my conservative nature appearing more and more.
My goals and dreams for myself? I merely want to be the best person I can be and before my days here are up, I hope to find true love, age gracefully, sail to Alaska, bungee jump and swim with dolphins I want to be remembered for being generous and funny and I hope at least one person's life will have been made a little better for having known me.
