Kelly Asher

West Seneca, New York

Public Health Information Specialist

I can relate to the quote by Mark Twain - "I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." Books and music were always an important part of my life. I have always loved the written word. I taught myself to read when I was 3 years old. My father played acoustic guitar and both my parent's were music lovers. My parents were quite strict and I was rather rebellious as a child so I was often grounded. "Grounded" meant, in your room, no television, no phone and no outside. The only things allowed were books and my little table top record player (the old suit case type), and any record I could get my hands on. This perpetual i