Nan Mykel

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Human Resources
Occupation Retired psychologist
Location Athens, Ohio, United States
Introduction Born in Virginia 79 yrs ago, raised on a farm in NC, Nan Mykel received her PhD in clinical psychology in 1977 and has worked at a mental health center and state prison where she ran a sex offender treatment program for 12 years. She has 4 children: a dedicated research RN; a music afficionado and happy dad of a girl and a boy; a child care worker with specialty in autistic children and the mother of two girls; and a grown daughter with Down syndrome. Undergraduate major was English, journalism, and anthropology. She is also a survivor and her book FALLOUT will appear on Amazon soon.
Interests volunteering on public access tv, genealogy, rock hounding, writing, sex offender treatment, Down syndrome, nighttime dreams, journaling, discussions about freewill, alternate universes and time, evolution
Favorite Movies Daddy's Dying Who's Got the Will, Trip to Bountiful, Harry Henderson
Favorite Music Don't have an ear for music. Do enjoy lively country and "old fashioned" music from time to time, however.
Favorite Books Consilience, User Illusion, You Can Go Home Again, poem Love After Love

You've been entered in a shadow puppet contest. What's your best pose?

I love dogs but only have a blind and deaf cat whom I care for, Why?