A Bit About Nic(k)

I get to write this now because Nic's still sleeping! ;) Pretty safe to say it'll take him a while to see it because he tends to shy away from social media!

Can't mention Nic without mentioning these guys! Check them out!

First I have to start with me. I already had my checklist out on what requirements the next man in my life had to fulfill: gentle, interesting, smart, hopefully artistic (I'm not at all; pure scientist!,) good family, likes kids and animals. I had been through enough with an abusive ex-husband and I wasn't going through all that again. I got my priorities straight by realizing where I had gone wrong and getting it right - most of all I had to learn that I was kind of awesome! I accomplished this mainly with book recommendations from yogi and therapist friends. Codependent No More and Beyond Codependency by Melody Beattie, The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker, and Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach are all good ones.

Nic Loves kittens! This is Tesla.

I met Nic when a mutual friend purposely introduced us at his brother Matt's house during the weekly Poker Night. Nic was living out of state at the time so we talked on the phone a lot. I think this was incredibly key to our relationship starting out right! He visited Lafayette several times a year because he has family here. We also met up with each other in several different places, so when he moved back to Lafayette we already had a good base.

Heart & Horseshoe in Asheville, North Carolina

Hiking a mountain in upstate New York

Widener Library, Harvard

Nic has 4 incredible siblings, a big loving family, and sweet wonderful friends. He avidly climbs mountains and has been a pronounced canoe racer. Nic's finishing his PhD in Communication & works as a professor teaching public speaking. After completing his Bachelors in Philosophy and English at UL of Lafayette on scholarship and with Honors, he hitchhiked around the country for a couple of years. He decided to do a dissertation in Improvising (he acts, but his love is improvising) and contacted universities until he found one that let him choose his own path, SIU Carbondale.

NIC LOVES IMPROVISING. He's great at almost everything he does, but he's really this big-time "improvier" & his dissertation is in improvising in the real world. Or something like that, I don't really understand it. A big reason why I love him! He started out in Cult of the Stage Monkey  ("COSM") which is an improvisational group that can be found at several universities now (look for them! here's their Facebook page.) He does work here with The Stage Monkeys of Lafayette, a professional troupe born from COSM, and he hopes to bring improvising to universities around the country.

Nic & his troupe

Nic is a natural runner like the rest of his family. He had not even trained for this race before we did it, and he still finished 13.1 in 2:49, pushing a wheelchair at that! Crazy. He stays busy making sure Snakebyte gets to school and I get to therapy, but he still manages to stay awesome. There's so much more I want to brag about on him, but I'm out of time!

I told you he has a fast an awesome family!