Marie Lindeen:  

"My Story" Wow.... I don't even really know where to begin here. However I have committed to making this the "Reader Digest", version for those who are interested. I graduated high school just a few months later than everyone else. I had my son Sky, finished my remaining credits, and graduated through the college. I then married a guy I had known all my life. Okay, we all make mistakes! Was divorced early, thought I leared my lesson, and moved on. After graduating I returned to Olympic College once again to take some additional basic classes I felt I needed. I worked several jobs during this time and then after I completed my classes I landed a job as the Mason County Literacy Coordinator. It was during that time I became eligible to apply for a scholarship to attend college full time. I was awarded the scholarship, and the following quarter I entered Olympic College in Bremerton with my eye on an associates degree for chemical dependency counseling. I finished my first year and started my internship working for a well known recovery center. Even though during this time my personal life was terrible my professional life was great. I guess everything happends for a reason. After my internship with the recovery center I was offered a permanent position in the detox unit, but declined because I didn't really feel that I was making much of a difference. I saw the numbers of people who would go through recovery only to return a few weeks later. I realized then that you can't force someone to be sober, they have to want it for themselves. It never made much sense to me that our court system orders a person to recovery. In most cases they are waisting tax dollars. It all got rather frustrating and in the end I gave up! I decided some where along the line that I needed to go back to waitressing long enough to figure out what I wanted to do next. I waited tables and bartened for a while before I met my second husband. I married Todd in 92 and moved to Ohio in 93. Lived in Ohio long enough to find out my new husband was quite an abusive individual. So, I hit the end of the road with him and decided that I would move back to WA instead of staying in OH. Even though I had met some really cool people there, I just wanted to come back to my family. I continued working in bars and ...Expand for more