I am a born and bred New Yorker. I grew up in Greenwich Village, the daughter of a makeup artist and playwright turned English professor and an actress turned elementary school music teacher. My sister is a singer/songwriter and a painter, and my half brother is a neuroscientist and a dabbler in both music and painting. I went to Boston University for a degree in Theater, but I soon realized that I didn’t have the ego to be an actress. I spent the next 30 years of my life as an accountant/CFO (trained while working at my grandfather’s accounting firm after classes in high school) in the tele...