I have lived most of my life in the greater New York area, and my career since college was in book publishing. I worked at Cambridge University Press, Macmillan Learning, The College Board, and John Wiley & Sons as an editor and developer of college textbooks in the humanities before retiring in 2021. The disciplines I worked in included English, Communications, Journalism, Business, History, Linguistics, and ESOL. I have been singing in choruses for 30+ years, since my college days. In 2017 I moved to Princeton and joined Princeton Pro Musica. My previous choral experience includes singing in small groups, such as Ember in New Jersey/NYC; in big choruses, such as the Greenwich Village Singers in NYC (before it became the smaller Greenwich Village Chamber Singers); in church choirs, such as the choir at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Newark; and in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, where I met my husband and fellow chorister, Chuck Appel. Although I have always been involved in these musical groups in various capacities, PPM is the first board I have served on.