Bio, 2009: Lynn Roney Lawson
I once was lost, but now I’m found! Actually, I didn’t even know I was lost until Ann and Sandra both found me on the same day!!! I am very happy to be “found” and have promised not to get lost again! That will be easy now that we have this great website. (Thanks Scrib!)
I have been hanging out in plain sight here in Houston for the last 24 years. I live with my husband, a psychologist (Norm Lawson) in Katy, a suburb of Houston. After leaving OSU, I completed my Ph.D. at The University of Texas, Austin in Counseling Psychology and then worked at the University of Iowa and then directed The Counseling and Psychological Services Center at Ithaca College in upstate New York. I moved back to the warm southwest in 1985 where I met my husband. We have been married for 21 years and have three daughters. The oldest (who is actually my step daughter) is in graduate school to become a nurse midwife, our middle daughter is working and attempting to find herself (I remember those days-sigh), and our youngest will graduate from high school this year. She has been accepted into the Navy’s nuclear engineering training program and will be “gone” in just a few months. I’m at the stage where I don’t know if I want to cry or jump up and down with joy!!
I quit my own practice of psychology about 12 years ago when I found myself the sole care taker for two ailing parents and a wife and the mother of two young children as well as in full time private practice. Something had to go and it was either my sanity or my job--hmm lets see-my sanity or my job??? Okay, the practice went. Several years later, after the deaths of both my parents and the girls were more self sufficient, I went back into teaching which I thought would give me some good hours to be at home with the girls. Actually, I think its the hardes thing I have ever done!! But, now that the girls are all grown Norm and I are thinking about retirement although with the stock market going crazy, we are not sure when that will happen. We are, however, pursuing a dream of ours which is to build a “green” house. We hope to break ground this spring and will have solar electric power, geo-thermal heat and ac and a rain water catchment system. We have a piece of land in the country and look forward to retiring there to rock on the porch, raise vegetables and watch our dogs chase the cows. I never really thought of myself as an “earth mother” type, but there ya go. We hope to have some grand children someday to play with, but that doesn’t seem like it will happen anytime soon.
Well, this was probably more than anyone wanted to know, but I am looking forward to hearing about everyone else. See you all in October!!!!
©2009 Stillwater High School Class of 1964