Vivian has been all over the world, spending part of her young life in the U.S. and Scotland. She traveled Europe wile stopping to live and work in a dress shop in Amsterdam, then for the U.S. Army in Munich. She also operated her own cafe in Brussels, Belgium. Vivian started working in commercial radio at then moved on to radio news in both Cleveland and Washington, D.C. for nine years. Vivian is quite a musician as well. She plays flute in the Workman`s Circle Klezmer Orchestra and the Lakeland Civic Jazz Band