Lyndsey: writer, editor, teacher, traveller
Lyndsey is the inspiration for Pink Crush. She was born in 1984. After graduating Hunterdon Central High School in 2003, she attended Cardiff University in Wales where she received a BA Joint Honours in European Languages in 2007. In 2009 she received a certificate in English language teaching to adults and until January 2012, she was an English studies instructor at the Future University in Cairo, Egypt.
In her short life, Lyndsey experienced more than most people do in a lifetime. She enjoyed traveling, living overseas in places such as Egypt, Wales, Germany and Spain. Feature articles were written about her in Cosmopolitan magazine and the Democrat, outlining her experiences in Cairo during the Arab spring. She was a voracious reader and writer, hoping one day to publish a mystery novel. Lyndsey maintained her own website, wrote several blogs and food reviews and had a love of cooking. Another interest was rescuing animals, all of them coming home with her.
Jasper, a street dog from Cairo who Lyndsey adopted. He now lives with her parents.
To the right is Jasper, one of three animals rescued by Lyndsey from the streets of Cairo. Along with his brother and a cat named Lulu (who Lyndsey wrote about in a blog post), he travelled from Egypt to New Jersey with her. Lulu was also the subject of a letter to the editor here.
Lyndsey described herself as a “writer, editor, teacher and traveller.”
Lyndsey passed away in 2012 from sarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer. It started as an innocuous lump on her knee but soon metastasized. To learn more about sarcoma, visit the Sarcoma Foundation of America.