▪ Greenwich Lions Club - The main focus of the Lions Club, if you'll allow the pun, is vision. However, though we are the world's largest service club organization with 46,000 clubs and 1.35 million members, we're also one of the most effective. Our members do whatever is needed to help their local communities. Everywhere we work, we make friends. With children who need eyeglasses, with seniors who don’t have enough to eat and with people we may never meet.

Our annual Pancake Breakfast is a neighborhood event beloved by generations of Greenwich residents where we not only raise funds for those in need but foster our hometown community feel.

My passion for this organization has been renewed recently with the addition of their KidSight http://www.iscreenvision.com/faqs/lions-club-vision-screening/ program. I LOVE volunteering to screen children for the early detection and treatment of vision impairments. Besides being around the kids, I know we are performing such a vital service. There's a real hands-on satisfaction finding kids who might otherwise spend years in a classroom not knowing they simply need glasses - all that lost learning opportunity! 

▪ Travel! I have been blessed to visit many beautiful places but there are many more I'd love to see. My favorites, thus far? Hungary. That's where my family is from. Austria. That's where I was born. 

▪ Music! ALL kinds of music. And if there's a dance floor, watch out!

▪ Cooking! For me, it's a by-the-book experience but I love experimenting. I don't mind a recipe that takes several steps and even days to concoct. I'll try pretty much anything given the time but, alas, that's the issue that all of us face, isn't it? That's why holidays are even more special - great food shared with loved ones! 

▪ A favorite day is spent at The Met either at the Costume Exhibit or the Impressionist paintings or European Sculpture and Decorative Arts or the American Wing or... well, you get the picture (pun intended).