From BellSouth Boardroom to Butterfly House Studio: A Journey Into the Feminine Divine with Susan Ryles

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:25:38 -0700

You'd never guess to look at Susan Ryles that she spent most of her life in buttoned-up business suits. Her favored look these days is decidedly more bohemian: feminine, quirky, and fun. Equally at home in a boardroom or her charming Butterfly House Studio, her journey inward has taken her from operator, to union leader, to Human Resources manager, and finally, to her current incarnation as what can best be described as an art goddess.

The retired BellSouth manager says she first realized she was an artist in the seventh grade. Temporarily relocated from Jacksonville, FL to a new school in Pompano Beach, she found herself in an art class. “And I thought, hey! I can do this! This is great!” But a short month later she was uprooted again. This time, there was no art class at her school, and her inner artist took a backseat for the next thirty years.

Sports Divas

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:55:49 -0700

For a few months in 1972 Olga Korbut was my idol. I spent that summer doing cartwheels in the kitchen and flips on the living room couch. But my mother was more concerned about the furniture than my career as a gymnast, and my dreams of Olympic gold pretty much ended there. Later that year, I fell in love with Chris Evert., but I was equally untalented on the courts. And in 1972, that was pretty much it for female sports role models.

Today, we are living in an era of Sports Divas. Women are playing professional sports in record numbers. They’re getting their own Wheaties boxes, and making the cover of Sports Illustrated (not just the swimsuit issue). And more and more girls are heading to college on athletic scholarships.

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From BellSouth Boardroom to Butterfly House Studio: A Journey Into the Feminine Divine with Susan Ryles

Sports Divas