Carol Chaney:  

I played clubs for awhile in New York, went to Clown School, joined the Army as a codebreaker during Vietnam, joined MENSA, worked for the Carson & Barnes Circus, received my MFA in New Media from the University of Michigan, had a show (animation and live video) at the Louvre in Paris as part of ICHIM, worked for DoD creating animation and video projects in venues like Constitution Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the National Mall. Returned to the university and am currently a retired Media Consultant/Adjunct Faculty in Music Technology at the University of Michigan - Flint campus and a retired lecturer in Animation and New Media at the UM campus in Flint and Ann Arbor. I'm an openly gay, single, Christian woman, never married, have no children and I have lived with some wonderful, bright dogs and a couple fascinating people. I now live with a mixed Russian Wolfhound and Lab (no one else can put up with me) named Pandora, in a small ranch home on an acre plot located in a suburb of Flint, MI. (If you are curious, no, I am not on Flint water (the leaded fiasco) but I drank the water for a couple years at work and in the area at restaurants, before the news broke. Much less exposure than others received). I've also traveled the United States and lived in: Wyoming, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, Alabama, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas (whew). I've traveled Europe more than a dozen times for both personal and professional events, wandering thru countries from The British Isles to Romania. Spent many weeks in Mexico, in Merida, Acapulco and in Cabo San Lucas. Sailed around the Great Lakes from Detroit to Chicago on a 59' racing sailboat. I was part of the crew delivering the boat to Chicago for the annual race to the Mackinac. In March and November 2016, I traveled to Iceland and then to the Isle of Skye in Scotland for a couple weeks; both places were on my bucket list for awhile. Gorgeous country, surreal in some ways since Iceland is glaciers and volcanoes, I felt like a pioneer. In the Summer of '18, winter ‘19 and Aug ‘21 made more trips to Iceland. In March '20, I took my nephew, Joseph, to Iceland. Told him I would take him if he could get all A's his first semester of college. And he did. We rode snowmobiles on one of the last Icelandic glaciers. In August 2022, I spent time in Paris with my sister and niece. My cousin and I missed the trip to Oberammergau for the Passion play in 2022. It was delayed because of the pandemic (only the second time in 420 years). I have been tagging all the items in my house with the Italian words (and French for remedial work) to aid my language learning skills. (The years in North Shore's French class (and college) certainly benefited me on a project with an academic colleague and a composer in France). My Spanish is still rusty but I've had to learn some Croatian, Hungarian and Romanian too..... (yes, been there too). I've tried the Icelandic language, but I am not good at it. As someone in Iceland told me, "Plea...Expand for more