Linda Kuehn:  

Fifty years! In one little bio! Here goes, about 1/10 of my life after Johnny Reb. Went to CU as pre-med, burned out and transferred to Lamont School of Music at DU. Went to NY, studied clarinet with Leon Russianoff, professor of clarinet at Julliard. He was also Benny Goodman's teacher. Had to come back to Denver, married my first husband, an alcoholic who shall remain nameless. His name isn't fit to print, but he was the bio father of my 3 wonderful children, Kevin, 41, Colin 39, and Kelly (girl) 37. I married my Soul-mate, Jim Kuehn in 1988, and inherited 3 wonderful stepchildren, same ages, boy-boy-girl. I love them like my own. Jim was a trumpet player and together we played in symphonies and music groups professionally. Jim passed away 9 years ago at the age of 55. You'll see him on my right arm, my second tattoo. We were also heavily into cats, working for a shelter in Las Vegas called Heaven Can Wait. My first tattoo is of our five cats we had when he went to the hospital. You might notice a discrepancy in the spelling of my last name. It was Kuehn, and in my heart it still is. But I hated all the misspelling and mispronunciation and general garbling of my name. So I asked my stepchildren about changing the spelling for myself. They said, "Go for it, mom! It makes you no less a member of the family." So I had it legally changed to Keehn, so you can pronounce it Keen. After Jim's passing I moved from Las Vegas to OK to live with my mom and brother, then back in CO to live with my daughter. Four years ago my mom asked me to take over my brother's job of caring for her and we bought a house in Pahrump, NV, about 55 mi...Expand for more