SerenaSammonica's profile

View all favorite photos

More about me

I teach Consumer Psychology (part time)  at the university level and also have a law degree (not practicing at this time).

Most of my life has been spent juggling kids, school and work; it took me nine years to finish my PhD in Biopsychology.

I had a brilliant idea of attending law school, thinking I would use my training in Psychology  to work in the area of Mental Health Law.  So, at the age of 41 I entered law school, graduated and passed the Bar on my first try (not bad for a forty-something)!

Unfortunately, it was impossible to get a job in the mental health field, so I worked for a firm that represented domestic violence victims.  After two years the operation folded and I was unemployed and unprepared for the ageism that exists in the legal employment arena.  It has been really difficult to find work as an attorney,

So....... now I'm back into teaching Psychology....but who knows... I haven't  yet given up yet the idea of practicing law...  

Activities

reading, traveling, learning languages, yoga (this is a new interest---I love it!), watching old films, studying piano.

Favorite Charities

St. Judes, ASPCA and local animal shelters.

Favorite Music

Hard to say. I love so many kinds...Classical-Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Puccini..... All Motown... All kinds of rock, from Simon and Garfunkel to Grand Funk Railroad....

Favorite TV Shows

Hmmm....Curb your Enthusiasm (although not as much this season), Seinfeld, Project Runway, The 4400, Classic TV episodes of Sid Ceasar's "Show of Shows", Milton Berle, Steve Allen, Ernie Kovacs.

Favorite Movies

North by Northwest, Summertime, It happened in Naples, Three Coins in the Fountain, Ginger and Fred, La Dolce Vita, Nights of Cabiria, Caine Mutiny, The Best Years of Our Lives, It's a Wonderful Life, Operation Petticoat, An Affair to Remember, Just about all of Woody Allen's films, Notorious, Small Change, Fanny and Alexander, A Man and a Woman, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Seven Year Itch, Some like it Hot, Bus Stop, Desk Set, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Moonstruck, Pride and Prejudice (Olivier's), Merchant of Venice (Al Pacino was awesome), Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Others, All of M. Knight Shyamalan's films, All of the Harry Potter films, and many, many more...

Favorite Books

Impossible to say.... My tastes range from War and Peace to Harry Potter..... I can be fascinated by Finnegan's Wake or Mad Magazine (What me worry?)

Favorite Quotes

"Brevity is the soul of wit"(Shakepeare) "I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses ... I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death..." Severus Snape "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Shakespeare

Favorite People

Still thinking....

Favorite Places

New York City, Spain and Italy.

Favorite Animals

cats.... cold-blooded favorites----salamanders and chameleons....

More "About"