Trying To Find The Road Not Taken

My name is Diana LeRoi-Schmidt and I’m married to Craig, we have two cats, Melody and Jazzmine and live in Connecticut.

I am an Interactive Media Developer for Cierant a small company located in northern Fairfield County in Connecticut. It’s a big title for doing web design and email marketing design.

Computers first became a part of my life in 1995 when my parents bought one for our home. My Dad was a Radio Shack junkie, he worked as an electrical engineer. He loved cars, so I loved cars. I was very much a daddy’s little girl. I built electrical kits with my Dad over the summers, ran around the woods with my neighbors using walkie-talkies, playing with my Breyer horse models and Matchbox cars. I rode my bike everywhere and was always available to hand off tools to my Dad while he serviced the cars.

Picking a degree for college was hard, I was interested in everything from being a mechanic, industrial designer, graphic designer and a lawyer. I settled on graphic design.

I took on my first client doing web design in 1998. It was a rocky first start. I stopped trying to do client work until I finished college. I then went onto work at SiteShell a dot com that was not successful. From there I went onto Ethan Allen Corporate for 5.5 years as a Multimedia Specialist doing everything from web design to PowerPoint presentations to AS400 item record maintenance..

Stepping back a moment, in 2001, while between jobs Craig and I decided to take CRIANA from being our wedding website, to being our company. I did not have the confidence to really make it successful. It sits out there waiting for me to come back to it. Which I will.

In June 2003 I began blogging and kept it active until around March 2006. I blogged sporadically over 2006 and come 2007 I could not find the time and inspiration to keep it up. I needed a break.

I really enjoy taking photos with my camera and spending as much time as possible with Craig. I’m extremely grateful to call these fine people my best friends, Craig, Kelly, Ron, Fred and Debbie. They are my support network, help keep me grounded and lift me up when I need it. They constantly inspire me.

Behind the Name

The title of the blog came from Craig and I talking one day while driving somewhere, and I said, “I really feel like I’m always trying to find the road not taken. I do everything backwards from the rest of the world”. And so it stuck.

“Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. ‚” Howard Thurman