Shelley Krause
My name is Shelley Krause, and I am a storyteller and a matchmaker, both by inclination and profession. At this point in my life, that means that I work as a college counselor in an independent school in New Jersey's Delaware Valley (USA). I spend my autumns coaching essay-writing, my winters modeling and preaching patience and perspective, my springs getting to know a new group of students as I help them get to know themselves, and my summers thinking deeply about each of my rising seniors in turn as I write letters in support of their candidacy for university admission.
I sometimes blog about my work at http://relaxnoreally.blogspot.com. I also help to coordinate a wiki for (mostly) US college counselors at http://collegelists.pbwiki.com.
In the late 1980's, I won the Danforth Award for public speaking at a national conference in New Orleans. More recently, I told stories at the 2007 NACAC convention in Austin, TX, and hope to once again be presenting in 2009.
At home, I am happily partnered and the mother of an inspiringly curious 7 year-old. Those hijinks are chronicled at http://butwait.blogspot.com
I'm glad that you've taken some time to visit these pages, and I hope you'll let me know what you think. You can reach me via email at shelleyq (at) yahoo (dot) com, or by tweeting my way (I'm butwait on Twitter).
