Carol Schaefer:  

After graduation in '69, I attended college locally for a short time and then studied music (harp and piano) at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. I there married my first husband and we had a wonderful son, Michael, in 1974. That marriage ended several years later and I returned to college within the SUNY system and obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting. I worked as an Accountant for 20+ years at different levels. During that time a good many members of my family decided to escape the snow and taxes of NY and we settled in Las Vegas, NV, where I still live. I finally obtained an MBA...but a few years after that I became very tired and burnt out from accounting and went back to school, yet again, and became a licensed massage therapist. I worked in this profession and accounting for a number of years. I am now married to a wonderful man who was a scientist and clinical researcher at Abbott Pharmaceuticals outside Chicago. My son is 34 and an IT specialist for a large banking system here in Nevada and in Arizona. My entire family pretty much migrated out here. I unfortunately have lost both parents, as so many of us have. I am semi-retired and I have also developed a mild case of MS. I work in marketing other therapists enhance and enlarge their practice. I am also representing a very well known lecturer and massage therapist from the Ukraine...with sales as well as seminar scheduling, editing and writing books and magazine articles. We live in North Las Vegas with two dogs, about 100 fish....a long ways away from East Meadow. I miss the "green" of being back east, but I certainly don't miss all the gray days and the snow. I still play the harp and have two in the house here....and all in all, I would imagine that my life in prior years has been less stabile than some, and a lot more fulfilling and adventuresome than most. I have been fortunate enough to travel all over the...Expand for more