Marty Mazzone – Fidelity Investments FMR Corp
"When I was in elementary school, we played outside no matter what the weather – kickball, tag, Red Rover, hide-and-seek, snowball fights.  We would play with our neighborhood friends for hours and the only rule was that we could not go inside anyone's house.  After that, sports and piano took over – lessons or practice (for both) pretty much every day."

Gaytri Kachroo – Burns & Levinson LLP
"When I was young (I especially remember high school), I would rush home from school because I was very hungry, and then I would go collecting.  Hunger: As embarrassing as this is, I would come home starved from school every day and long for my mother’s incredible Kashmiri dishes and rice because I would have had no lunch.  My mother used to make me fried egg sandwiches for lunch, which I detested and would never eat.  You see, having spent my younger years in India as a vegetarian and fairly poor, eggs were my most sought-after food (probably because I was protein starved) and I could only get them when I got sick.  But when my brothers and I came to Canada, eggs were plentiful and we ate them to our heart's content until eventually and inevitably we got sick of them.  I still don't like eggs much, but back then I couldn't stand the sight of them.  So every day, my mother's fried egg sandwiches went into the garbage bin effortlessly.  Collecting: From the age of 11 to the age of 17, I used to have a morning paper route all year long of some 65 houses in Montreal.  As we know quite well from our law practices, when you provide a service, you also have to put effort into collecting payment for said service.  Needless to say, often people would not have the $1.25 (the weekly rate in those days...yes I am dating myself) and I would have to go back to collect many times during the week after my heavy snack.  I wonder if they would have been more forthcoming had they known the current price of my legal services, or even the current price of a newspaper!"

Randy Gioia – Law Office of Randy Gioia
"The first thing I did was change into play clothes. Then, if it was fall, most days I’d put on my shoulder pads and helmet and my friends and I would choose up sides to play tackle football.  If it was spring, we’d choose up sides to play some form of baseball. It was either hardball, stick ball or whiffle ball, and we played until it was too dark to see.  Then, I’d do my homework."

Manisha H. Bhatt – Greater Boston Legal Services
"As soon as I got home from school, I would change out of my school clothes and have an unhealthy snack of cookies and chips.  It’s frightening to think about all of the sugar that I consumed in my childhood!  After I finished snacking, I got started on my homework.  My parents had a strict rule that put school first.  I had to finish all of my homework before I could move on to more fun things. (Friday afternoons were no exception!)  After I finished my homework, I played with my friends and younger brother or watched TV.  My family and I always had dinner together.  After dinner, I would check to make sure that I had my school bag ready.  After that was done, my family and I would watch some evening game shows together before we went to bed."

Luvinda V. Rivera – The Law Offices of Lucinda Rivera
"Coming back home from high school, I liked to play sports, and went to volleyball practice twice a week."

Thuy Wagner – Boston Medical Center
"My neighborhood in Georgia was surrounded by beautiful dense woods.  From the moment the bus dropped us off until dinner time, the neighborhood kids and I roamed the woods where we played hide-and-seek and searched for the perfect sticks and leaves to build our fort. On really hot days, we would sit inside our custom-built fort and eat ice cream."