Brenda Brouder:  

It's been a long time since high school and there's volumes to tell however, I'll spare you the gory details. I finally finished my Biology degree at NAU and I'm a Fish and Wildlife Biologist. Amphibians are my area of interest, but I've worked with fish, birds and habitat as well. I spent sometime working with the Arizona Game and Fish Dept. as well as, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Currently my full time job is "Domestic Engineer" and part time I do administrative work the local Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. I waited to start a family until a point when many of you probably already had teenagers and maybe a few of you were grandparents. I was 40 when I had my daughter (Emma) and I'm a full time mom. After living in the deserts (Tucson & Phoenix) and mountians (Flagstaff, Globe, Pinetop) of Arizona for over 30 years, life brought me back to the midwest about 3 years ago. I don't know if anyone will remember but I started FW in 6th grade after moving to Tucson from SW Michigan, so it was really like coming back home to a culture and way of life much like my childhood when we moved to Ashland, WI. You can't get to much farther north and still be in the US ...Expand for more