Little known facts about Jen

Married her college sweetheart at age 21
and in 2023, celebrated 35 years of marriage to David,
her favorite person.

Engagement picture, 1987

Engagement, 1987


Wedding, 1988


Liverpool, UK,
Summer 2022

She is the mother of four now-grown children.

Jen and her four kids,
many moons ago (circa 2004)

She worked for an international public health NGO in the early and mid-1990s and lived and worked in Bangkok, Thailand and Hanoi, Vietnam during that time.

1994, at my desk in Bangkok, Thailand. I worked for an international public health NGO and spent 3 months one year there, with occasional trips to Vietnam as well.

At her desk in Bangkok

May 2019; Galway

She loves making lists.


She was informed by Spotify that she listened to more hours of music a year than over 95% of their users. (Her eclectic taste includes Beach House, Brandi Carlisle, Ella Fitzgerald, Astrud Gilberto, Norah Jones, Lyle Lovett, and Regina Spektor.)


She is an ordained minister with Universal Life Church and performed her first wedding ceremony last fall.


She loves a hop-on/hop-off bus more than the average tourist and has been on them in Edinburgh, Scotland; Sydney, Australia; Oxford, England; Bologna, Italy; Florence, Italy; London, England; Galway, Ireland; Dublin, Ireland...and more!

She is a proud dog mom to Scarlett.