Deshae Lott
determined sojourner
About Deshae
Deshae was born at a U.S. Army hospital in then-West Germany. At a very young age, surface symptoms began to appear that were the first signs of a severe variant form of Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy. This congenital disease causes muscle tissue to deteriorate and prevents it from rebuilding. At age 17 she could longer walk, and at 31 she no longer had the pulmonary capacity to breathe on her own on a consistent basis. The disease affects every aspect of Deshae's life, but it is not how she defines herself.
Most of Deshae's life has involved learning and teaching. She she loves the pursuit of intellectual inquiry and facilitating that process for others. From kindergarten through her doctoral studies, Deshae sustained a 4.0 average, having earned a final grade of "A" for each course of study. Upon receiving her Ph.D., she had completed her formal education but not her commitment to being a student of life and ideas. She has traveled extensively across the United States and to several foreign countries, completed three university degrees, and has taught at the university level taught at the university level since January 1993.
Having been forced to retire from full-time teaching in 2001, she continues to teach part-time and to write. She spends the majority of her time dealing with health care issues necessary to allow her avocation of teaching and writing. Besides conducting classes on spirituality, her most recent project is a compendium of essays and poetry for future publication. Her pasttimes include conversing with friends and family, studying spirituality, listening to music, engaging in wine-tasting, and sunbathing.
Deshae is married to Jeffrey Sadow, webmaster for this site and interjector of the aggrandizement that appears about her throughout it.
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