Marcia is an 86 year old widow.  She is a person who has redefined herself frequently over her lifetime.  As a child she was shy, almost reclusive.  Trying to talk to people was painful, so she taught herself to read and had her own library card by the age of six.  She had Scarlet Fever when she was three which left her with a residual balance problem.  Unfortunately, no one recognized the problem until she left for college. So, Marcia grew up thinking she couldn’t do what everyone else could.  That feeling was accentuated when she learned she needed glasses and couldn’t see what everyone else saw.  Somewhere along the way, Marcia decided she had to go her own way.  If she couldn’t do what other people could, she would do what she wanted no matter what everyone else thought.  She attended Brandeis University, graduating with a degree in chemistry.  Most of her spare time was spent in the labs, experimenting and watching the grad students pursue their thesis.  After graduating she discovered that no interesting science jobs were being offered to women with only a bachelor degree. She wasn’t even sure an advanced degree would help.  Having neither the inclination or money for graduate school, Marcia looked for alternatives. She decided that changing to the newest, most sought after, most wanted technical field meant a minimum of retraining.  So she began a series of title changes. From inorganic chemistry to physical chemistry to atmospheric physics to optical instruments for measuring the atmosphere, to computer analysis of atmosphere to computer software for optical design and analysis.  From there she moved into scientific management completing her working career as a senior project manager.  Marcia had spent more than 40 years working about 60 hours a week on projects for her companies.

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When she retired, she needed to find ways of occupying  herself.  She began to take courses about subjects she had never investigated.  She studied literature, and began writing articles, family  reminiscences and short stories.  While she had been a photographer from the age of 10, she studied abstract photography, and began going on field trips to explore landscape and group photography.

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Today, Marcia spends her time imaginal dreaming, ‘sending’ healing to the 70+ people on her healing list, painting using a variety of paint styles and bases, taking photographs using her Digital Panasonic LUMIX ZS-DC70S, 20.3 Megapixel with a 30X magnification Leica Lens, and using her iMac computer running Photoshop Elements and Luminar 4 photographic manipulation software to create non-representation artwork.  She has submitted images of her artwork to a number of on-line art gallery competitions as well as trying to keep her website up-to-date. She has had a number of solo shows.