| About Me
- My LEGO Journey
| I was born in 1979 with a brother who was 8 at the time. He had been collecting LEGO since the late 1970s and had accumulated a nice collection of mostly castle and space, all of which had already been taken apart. I started getting my own sets as gifts starting around 1982-83. I took most of those apart too, lol. We combined our LEGO and kept them in a big red tub (those round plastic ones with the rope handles and multiple color choices you would find at Walmart and K-Mart.) It was a nice collection with lots of great minifigs and some Fabuland mixed in as well.
My "Dark Ages" began when I was 15 and going through some rough times. A year earlier my Mom died of cancer and it was an ugly, traumatic death scene that gave me PTSD, something I still deal with today. A few months later I nearly died when my immune system suddenly attacked my pancreas and turned me into a Type-1 Diabetic. My blood sugar was over 900 the day I was diagnosed. I remember (this was 1995) building a really cool yellow technic airplane in my hospital bed.
After that, I struggled and was, for all intents and purposed, on my own at the age of 16. I sold the entire lot of LEGO my brother and I collected, tub and all, for only 50 dollars. At the time, this was a life-saver because I had no money and was desperate.
I focused on doing well in school and began to realize my potential. I went straight into college and earned a Bachelors of Geology, then a Masters of Geology. I worked full time throughout my entire college career and I'm still paying back those student loans.
Now I teach Earth Science at a California State University, and have been doing so since 2003. I LOVE my job. I use LEGO to help explain concepts at times as well. I am also a STEAM tutor, and I work with kids to explore engineering using LEGO Education (Sylvan Learning).
MY Dark Ages ended in 2015, and the first big set I bought was the Detectives Office. Since then, I have collected countless LEGO and many many sets. I love LEGO for many reasons, such as how they are therapeutic for me, and more importantly, they remind of earlier, simpler days. | | This page has been viewed 63 times. |
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