I am excited to be joining UU Wellesley Hills as your intern minister for the next two years. I will be dividing my time between this community and First Parish in Framingham. I look forward to working with Rev. Mark and the other professional and lay leaders here, and to ministering and being of service to — but also learning from — this congregation. Like the questioner in Luke 10:25-37, I am a recovering lawyer. After 30 years of practicing intellectual property law, I have turned in a different, more spiritual direction. I grew up in Dublin and while Ireland is still “home,” I have also lived for many years in New York City and the Philadelphia area. I have two adult daughters, India and Lizzie, of whom I am immensely proud. I am seeking to be ordained as a UU minister and I have a special interest in contemplative end-of-life chaplaincy. I am a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin (with a master’s degree in history) and Columbia Law School. Recently, I returned to Trinity to study for a master’s degree in contextual theologies and interfaith relations, and I am currently an M.Div. candidate at Harvard Divinity School. I have also completed a unit of clinical pastoral education/chaplaincy training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and I will shortly be undertaking a second unit at Hebrew Senior Life in Roslindale. My other interests include history, travel and cooking.