Author: Terri LaBonte

Terri LaBonte recently retired from a middle management position with the federal government, after over 33 years in federal service. She began her career in 1981, upon graduation from college. Ironically, after spending four years studying the English language, she began working at a job that required her to speak Bureaucrat. Terri was born in New York City. Her parents did exactly what they were supposed to do in the fifties. As soon as they had a baby, they moved to Long Island. Moving an hour and a half from the city worked out so well for them, they decided to move across the entire country to California a few years later. When Terri retired, she and the love of her life vowed to fulfill their secret desire to live in a space bigger than a breadbox without having to print their own money to pay for it. Having grown up three miles from Disneyland, Terri worried that her DNA would unravel if she ventured too far from the Happiest Place on Earth. Therefore, she settled in central Florida to reinvent herself. Terri writes a lifestyle blog entitled Terri LaBonte: Reinventing Myself In Retirement. In the blog she documents her journey as she navigates the many changes retirement can bring. She also recently published a book under the name Dorry Curran, the name by which she is known in real life. You can order her book, Changing My Mind: Reinventing Myself In Retirement, on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. You can also purchase the book by visiting her direct to reader sales site . If you order a paperback copy on the direct to reader site, you can type in the promo code terri for a 15% discount.