Sharon (Hall) Matulewicz

I cannot say I have anything grand or out of the ordinary to write about. I haven't won the lottery, invented the next big thing, or become famous in any way shape or form. I am lucky, however, to be able to say that I am married to my high school sweetheart, live in a place of grandeur beauty, make a living doing what I love, and above all else I am happy. 

After graduation, I completed a semester of college at ICC until I could decide what my next move in life would be. Many of you may remember my hockey playing yankee boyfriend, Tim, who came to Tupelo from Michigan. In 2004, I decided to continue college in Michigan at Northern Michigan University. NMU is located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on the shores of Lake Superior (yea, don't worry, I also never paid much attention to the fact that an Upper Peninsula of Michigan existed until I met Tim). It took one visit to this place to know it would be a win win to move here. In my mind I assumed Tim and I would finish school and move somewhere in between our two families, but I utterly fell in love with this place - Winter and all (OK, in all fairness, loving winter took a few years...several years). I graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Psychology and a Sociology minor in 2008. Directly out of college, I began working for the State of Michigan in Foster Care case management, and Child Protective Services.  After two years, I made the very difficult decision to leave the position and focus on doing something more uplifting for a living, which so happened to be something I loved. Photography. Night and day, but I now own my own photography business, and also work full-time for a larger company shooting school portraits (Yup! I'm that person you remember "Sit up nice and tall...BIG smile...Perfect!"). It has been utterly refreshing to make kids smile on a daily basis, rather than seeing them shedding heart wrenching tears.

Tim and I were married in August of 2010. We purchased our first home a few months prior to our wedding, and it still keeps us busy as we renovate and continue to make it our own. Tim is a Packaging/Process and Manufacturing Engineer for a company that manufactures medical devices for worldwide distribution. This past year we celebrated 10 years together, and our second year of marriage. We do not yet have children, as we are still far too selfish with our free-time, and can fully admit that lol.  But, we do have a kickass German Shorthaired Pointer who is my shadow and our pride and joy! She lets me do things like this to her for work :)   I am excited to see everyone, and to roam around my hometown after so many years of being away!