QueenAnntics

Long ago, I earned the nicknname of “Queenie” after I sprained my ankle and then milked it for all it was worth. I couldn’t even hobble over to the counter to pick up an orange without making a scene.  A friend of ours, who had been an  NFL All-Pro tight end remarked, “Are you kidding me?  I have played football on worse injuries than that.  Come on Queenie!”  The name stuck.

I suppose growing up with the name of Ann made it easy to develop the Queen Ann identity, even though most queens are Queen Anne with an “e” not straight up Ann with no “e.’  Nevertheless, it seems that I have been called Queen Ann even by people who have never heard the original Queen Ann story and I never lost my flair for the dramatic and the ridiculous.  It was my daughter Natalie who coined the term “QueenAnntics” when I was dreaming up another caper.  She said, “What sort of QueenAnntics are you up to now?”  I loved the term so much that I vowed to use it as an eclectic, grab bag companion website to my professional one,  Annholm.net.

I am a curious and innovative speech-language pathologist turned Life Coach and Cognitive Specialist.  I have had a lifelong interest in cognition and brain science.  However, my dream and my alter-ego is that of  a writer,  essayist, and reporter.   I love a good story, an unusual angle, or a profound reflection.  If something hits my funny bone, I have talk to about it.  It’s not enough to just keep a diary or a journal.  For whatever reason,  I need to share my thoughts because that which is written but then never revealed seems like it was never said at all.   Thank goodness for the internet because people like me now have a forum to speak.  And besides, what kind of a life coach encourages others to follow a dream if she has not done so herself?