At the Office with Dr. Aucoin (opens in new tab)

I was raised Catholic in New Orleans, stopped practicing for a time during my undergraduate years, and then began attending Catholic church on a regular basis during graduate school. Then, in my first PhD course, I met Amanda Wood — now Amanda Aucoin — and we became friends. I tried to convert her to Catholicism and get her to go to mass with me, but I quickly found that she was very strong in her faith and had been raised in a Baptist home.