Deborah Shaw

Deborah Shaw

I worked as a costume designer for 30 years, half of that at Late Night with Conan O’Brien.  In 2009, when the show moved to Los Angeles, I was 55 and, since my husband has a career in New York, I didn’t want to leave.  It was the perfect time to make a...
Tom Hendershot

Tom Hendershot

During two 16-year careers, one as a Grand Rapids, Michigan police officer and another in corporate security, there wasn’t much opportunity to pursue my interest in natural history. Then one day, retirement…OMG! I could go to fossil shows and dig for...
Mary Huff Stevenson

Mary Huff Stevenson

For most of my adult life, I was a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. I retired and am now in my encore career as a fitness instructor focusing on older adults and people with physical limitations. This was an unlikely path for me to...