Kathleen leaves no fingerprints

It would be pretty hard to frame Kathleen for some sort of crime using her fingerprints. That’s because her body is chemically incapable of leaving prints on many surfaces. It’s a rare condition she found out about while working with the Secret Service during her undergrad at American University.

If she hadn’t have gone to Prague on a study abroad while she was in school for International Relations she may have gone on to work for the FBI or the CIA. She went back to school for screenwriting and then off to LA, instead. (The fingerprints didn't have anything to do with career change, so much as encouragement from a professor).

Kathleen

No, not everyone can say they worked for the Secret Service in DC or the set of Grey’s Anatomy in LA, but there’s more: Add to the long list of Kathleen’s talents and interests: dog whispering, sound effect timing and creation at baseball games, and culinary arts. You see, she’s a bit of a renaissance woman.

Every bit a versatile woman, she is not afraid to change direction. After writer strikes in LA and some soul searching in Georgia, and a car accident, Kathleen says she’s learned better than to resist career changes. After the accident injured her back making it difficult to stand up all day in the corporate kitchens where she worked, her sister offered her a job with her doggie day care.

She likes it, she says, and it’s clear from how the two sweet dogs circle around her and lean into her for affection, she’s good at what she does.

“It’s not exactly where I thought I’d be, or at all what I thought I’d be doing,” she explains but adds “You may plan for the future, but you just have to go with what life gives you.”

Her lab mix Bentley jumps up on her and leans in for cuddles, and Kathleen obliges.

Bentley Kathleen and Ellie

Favorite thing about Cleveland Circle:

“That we have three different Green Line T-stops…  Besides the T, the restaurants.”