Connie Bennett:  

Life Moved to Anchorage, Alaska where I married James Bennett, a psychologist. We lived in the Alaskan Bush for a year. There I did subsitute teaching, learned how to tan moose hides and ice fished in the Kuskoquim River in 80 below 0 weather! I worked in Prudhoe Bay (nearly the most northern point in the US) for a while before moved to Anchorage where I opened a restaurant-A Taste of Heaven-voted Anchorage's finest restaurant right before we had to close our doors. Not willing to give up on my loyal clients, I began Saucy Sisters Catering - catering gourmet functions up to 10,000 people. I took classes with James Beard, Julia Child, Jacques Pepin and others. I opened a cooking school in conjunction with my catering business where I gave lessons and brought famous chefs to teach. Meanwhile, my family moved to Alaska to work with me. My sister, Cherie, met her husband there and I have two incredibly beautiful, intelligent nieces. Saucy Sisters Catering incorporated in 1986 under Good Taste, Inc. when we expanded into airline catering and grocery store supply of various fresh salads and home-cooked meals; flower business and interior design company. I was named Small Business Person of the Year for the State of Alaska and the Western Region of the United States. I formed a real estate holding company in 1989-Flamingo Properties-purchasing apartment complexes/commercial property. I divorced James in 1989, the same year that my mother died of cancer. I led the first successful political recall campaign in Alaska history-a process that lasted a year of my life! I briefly considered a foray into politics before my brain went back into action! I lived in Mt. Shasta, California for a year while my partner and I designed and built a meditation garden that we opened to the public. I began a heart-opening - a spiritual trek - that has taken me to nearly 40 countries (some more than once). Some of the high points; studying/initiatio...Expand for more