Diane Klammer:  

To all that are perennially trying to define what it is you want to be when you grow up: follow your joy. I'm grateful to my Brazilian mom and Scandinavian dad who passed down passion and industry with that unlikely combination of genes from the north and the south. I have changed directions many times in my life. That path has not brought me riches, but it has kept me happy and made my life interesting. In high school, I wanted to find a cure for cancer, so I majored in biology in college. There I discovered that the macro interested me more than the micro and I specialized in terrestrial field biology and was also intrigued by psychology. So I became a high school teacher after getting married. Well, one of the students pointed out that I help save her from suicide and I decided to become a counseling psychologist. Quite a switch. By then I had two kids. Amazing how much energy we have when we're young. I worked with various populations in LA, mostly with the chronically mentally ill. Now we're in Boulder Colorado, and I've been writing and singing when not working for Boulder County Parks and Open Space as a Naturalist or Mental Health Partners as LPC. I published a rather large first book of poetry with Monkey Puzzle Press. Hubby works for JPL in Pasadena from Boulder. It's a nice city, although this winter seems like Alaska in Boulder. My son Aaron is a genome sci...Expand for more