Joanna Rice:  

After UNC-G, I served as Artist-in-Residence in Rutherford County, worked with school children, and did community theater. In the summers I played cocktail piano in restaurants and country clubs. When I was about 25, I modeled for a panty hose package sold in K-Mart -- my ten years of fame. ha I wrote local commercials for WITN-TV for a year, and then I moved to Los Angeles in 1979. With a partner, I wrote and pitched scripts for TV. In LA, everyone who goes there to learn about the industry gets a Day Job (if they like to eat and buy stuff), and mine was contracting support services with law firms. Ultimately, I worked exclusively eight years for Latham & Watkins, the 2nd (or 4th) largest global law firm, depending on which week we're talking about. While law was never what I pictured myself doing, it was the most interesting thing I did during my 25 years in LA. In 1992, I met a man with a printing company who shared my desire never to get married. So, of course, that's exactly what we did three years later. We were childfree by choice, compatible and happy, and we bought a house 15 minutes from downtown LA and walking distance from the Pasadena Rose Bowl. His passion was renovating vintage BMW motorcycles, and we toured the southwest a...Expand for more