Pardon me if I boast about the creativity of my offspring, but they are each so creative that I take great pride in their individual abilities. 
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My first born, Jesse , left a promising career in advertising to become a photographer. He left his home in San Francisco to travel the world in pursuit of distinctive travel photographs which now populate the walls of museums, institutions and the homes of thousands.

My second born, Amy, has creativity coming out of her every pore: she writes, draws, paints, designs, sings (her own songs), even her cooking morsels are creations. After traveling the US, either working in construction or on an organic fruit farm or singing in any number of coffee shops, she decided to return to college and was accepted by the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design with a full scholarship and given work designing faculty web sites and assisting faculty members in their classes.

David came next. After majoring in Economics at Tulane University, he fell in love with film. He set off for Los Angeles to follow his dream. He enrolled in the American Film Institute completing two years of post graduate studies in all areas of film creation and production supported by his skill as a videographer, producer, writer and editor. As a free-lancer, he completed video projects commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as such corporate giants as Banana Republic, Miller Brewing Company, Sprint, American Express, Intel to name a few. But nothing required his full talents as much as creating a video for his brother, Jesse, based on Jesse's own 'how to' writings. David wrote the video script, photographed, edited and produced a video, the first of which is shown on Jesse's web site, and can be seen here. David is now the owner and main talent of Jolly Road Productions.

 

Allon is the youngest of the Kalisher clan. Though his creativity is not in the visual arts, he is none-the-less a creative part of the brood. With a Masters Degree in Social Work he went to work for the Connecticut Department of Children and Families, first as a case worker, then rising through the ranks to Program Supervisor. His major achievement was in introducing new tools and methods for using data to evaluate staff performance and for tracking progress towards achieving fundamental child welfare outcomes. He has been a frequent guest at a variety of national conferences invited to speak on the reports system he was so instrumental in designing as well as other related topics. Allon is currently the manager in charge of workforce development programs designed to build the knowledge and skills of staff at all levels.

 

Another world traveler, Helen Westwood, started her travels from her home in the U.K. She is an artist, an illustrator, as well as a graphic and web site designer. She and Jesse met in Central America where their romance blossomed. She joined him in San Francisco where they were married. They now live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.