Lesley Dobis
I learned long ago you can’t die of embarrassment. So laugh at me or with me. Just let me tell you what happened.
Storyteller. Accidental farmer. Splendiferous nerd mom.
8 Things You Might Not Know About Me
- I’ve done yoga continuously since 1989 right through all my pregnancies and I still practice today. When I first told my parents about it, they thought I had joined a cult.
- While growing up, I spent most summers camping on the islands of Lake George in New York State.
- I’m among 2% of people who see numbers in color in my head. It’s a type of synesthesia. Each number always shows up as the same color. I share this trait with novelist Vladimir Nabokov, physicist Richard Feynman, and composer Franz Liszt.
- I’m an INFJ, Virgo, Year of the Snake, and enneagram 9 (although everyone thinks I’m a 6).
- I’ve been a full-time chicken Mom since 2011.
- Both my sister and I went to Clarkson University which was only open to men a few years before we started. All 5 of our children also graduated from there and it was their decision, not ours.
- I was a massage therapist from 2000-2020
- In 1987 I received a commendation from the U.S. Army for my work there as a civilian. I collected evidence of fraudulent welding practices on tanks that were later used in Iraq. We used a cobalt source to see into the metal without destroying it. Yes, it was radioactive and I can’t believe I did that. Don’t tell my mom!