Darlene MacFarland:  

So... I did a lot of theater in college. Interesting, considering I started out as a biology major. I became a professional banker, after some detours and a move back to Texas. I became an expert in all sides of financial services, and even helped pursue crooks and bad guys in the industry to make them pay after they took down the savings and loan industry and many banks. I even did a stint in IT and supervised some techies, and was usually the go-to person on computers over the years. The last ten years of my working life were spent as an expert on vaccines and preventable diseases in public health, and also educating the public, school nurses, and first responders about it all as well. When COVID hit, I like to think that some of my presentations made a difference, especially with area fire departments. Most of them were not aware of the Great Pandemic of 1918, and teaching them all about it opened their eyes, and they began to implement policies to protect their staff for the future. As for my private endeavors, I have been experiencing and researching all kinds if weirdness since I was about 14. It was all in the background for many years, and suffice to say that I know some interesting people in the ‘community’. But then, if you attended Ham...Expand for more