Sheila Douglas writes:
I am a working as a Certified Professional Counselor with a private practice and also as a consultant/ therapist to several foster care agencies, with a specialty in reunification of families. I also teach Psychology at College of Southern Maryland and Prince George's Community College.
My husband, Ken Pfeferman, and I were married in 1977. He was a systems analyst for the government until he retired last year, and now is having a ball selling paint at Lowe's.
I have 3 sons. The oldest, Max, is 26 and a network engineer for SMS corporation, living in Arlington, Virginia. He is currently seriously dating a lovely girl, and we may have a wedding in our future within the year, hopefully. My second son, Robert, is 23 and in his last term as a political science major at George Washington University. He is my free spirit son - looks like my husband but acts like me - who has not yet even begun to settle down. He spent a full year in Amsterdam, and a summer in Costa Rica, and plans to spend the time after his graduation touring the U.S. by bus. Ah, the young. I would have loved to do it, but no more. At least not by bus! My third son, David, is 20 and a sophomore at The University of Maryland, majoring in Chinese. Don't ask me how that happened because I have no idea, but he he took it as a lark and fell in love with it last year, and so he decided to major in it.
I am empty nesting, and even though my kids are both physically and emotionally close to me, I miss having them in our house. Believe it or not, I miss the years as a soccer mom!
I still get to Harrisburg at least monthly to see my mother, now 94, who is living at the Jewish Home.