Leah Strong:  

Life It's been a long time since high school. Went to Central Mich U for music for a year. Wrong career! Went to Eastern Mich U for industrial technology for 2 years. Met my 1st husband. Wrong career and wrong husband, but got a perfectly good daughter out of the deal. I moved to Colorado Springs in the mid 80's and got a BS in electrical engineering and a new husband. Right career. Right husband. Fast forward a decade. I worked as a computer design engineer for Intel in the desktop division in Hillsboro, Oregon. My husband was, and still is a software architect in the chipset division. Somewhere along the way, we acquired 2 more daughters. We moved to Folsom, California in August '99 (yes, it's the one with the prison - Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues) where my husband is still with Intel. I left the work force several years ago when my youngest daughter, who was 8 at the time, was diagnosed with spinal cancer. Now, 6 years later, I am still at home with my girls, now 20 and graduated from college, 16 and psyched about being a senior in the fall, and 14 and entering high school. My youngest continues with her struggles with cancer. It has since spread to her brain. After a successful tumor removal in June she is doing better than expected. She's not loving having the left side of her head shaved head and doesn't care that we used to do it in the 80's, which was how I tried to sell the look to her. Thank goodness for extensions. Hopefully her hair will be long enough before school starts to have them put in. She will now have follow up Cyberknife at Stanford next week to try to keep any new tumors from popping up. Life kind of revolves around having a sick kid, but I hope to get back to accomplishing my goals one day. In the meantime, I hang with friends, including Diana Schoen (MHS class of 1980, wh...Expand for more