About The Author

Catherine Rochester

Catherine Rochester is a versatile expert who has had a long career in the field of entrepreneurship, equestrianism, yoga, and writing. Having served more than twenty-five years in the financial sector, Rochester has thought of many business initiatives, prospectuses, and messages in a more than a century-long career as an investment banker, hedge-fund manager, and bank consultant. It was her retirement in the 1990s when she stopped her work in Capital Resources, Inc., where she was the founder, because she wanted to devote her life to competitive equestrian sport.

Having incorporated yoga in her exercise routine, Rochester learned that yoga helped to improve balance and core strength, which eventually resulted in her becoming a yoga instructor with her own followers. COVID-19 brought her an unexpected present of time, and now she could write a very personal narrative that had been brewing over the last quarter of her life. It is a chronicle of the unbelievable love and devotion that existed between her father, who was American, and her mother, who was Japanese, who met in post-World War II Japan. There was a long distance separating them because of the language barrier, but their love lasted because of the letters and translations.

Rochester was born in the U.S. military hospital in Izmir, Turkey and grew up in Laurel, Maryland but is now living on a horse and cattle farm in Virginia with her husband, a dog, a cat and a number of horses. She has a BA degree in Business at the University of Central Florida and a Master of Finance at the American University.