ABOUT ME

My name is Natalie Bennett, and I’m in love with my new job at Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut. I get to visit my friend Vincent (Van Gogh) every day.

I am from Hesperia, a small, desert town in Southern California that no one really knows, except to stop for gas on the way to Las Vegas.

When I say small and desert, I mean people riding their horses through the McDonald’s parking lot, going to the old dollar movie theaters was a big deal, and the ancient Wal-Mart was the place to shop, small.

But there were beautiful desert dusk skies, stars as bright as lights in the black of night, and I would fall asleep to the coyotes howling.

I joined the Navy in 2006 and I was sent out two weeks after walking into a recruiting office. That’s when life really began. I left after a few years, and I had a few odd end jobs. I worked at hookah bars, restaurants, and a few retail jobs, but I ended up returning to California with the Los Angeles County Environmental Health. It was perfect. I had my own cubicle, enough for an apartment, eventually got a car, and life was good.

As it turned out, I was not a “California” type person despite it being home.

So, I decided to move to Connecticut with my mom. The education is wonderful and people are much nicer.

And I like nice people.