Gretchen Collins:  

Life Brooklyn, Scranton, Miami, Coconut Grove, Chicago, New Orleans, Stamford CT, Kentucky, California, Kentucky. From print journalist to married Mother of two, corporate world, back to college, theatre stage manager, macrobiotic practitioner, designer. Enjoy yoga/do-in/qi-gong/shiatsu, tennis, workouts, sailing, camping, reading, bridge, gardening, trying new things and places. From 2002-June 2008 in San Francisco East Bay. Macrobiotics (vegetarian, world peace) gave me a new lease on life in November 2002, and I'm studying to become a counselor. Google the George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation, then Summer Camp, and head on out to Tahoe National Forest every July - revitalizing. We moved back to Bowling Green, Kentucky, end of June 2008, and I worked for Western Kentucky University's International Program for six months begining in January 2009. Jobs are hard to come by in this economy, and most go to locals or their network of relatives and friends. I've gone back to volunteer work, occasional theatre work (essentially volunteer), working elections, and a job called Emergency Substitute Teacher (no teaching credentials, but 210+ college credits and more smarts than many of those credentialed, as eveidenced by the horrific spelling, grammar and output of teachers whose classrooms I inhabit). Not my favorite thing to do - I'd weed out kids who aren't in school to learn, starting in Junior HS, with the knowledge that they could always come back later when they got serious. I think the tail is wagging the dog in schools these days. Kids know that schools want that $180/day for their warm body, and they disrespectfully run riot over the system. What a world, what a world! I actually finished my bachelor's at WKU, 38 years after starting at UF in 1963 as a journalist. I got a BFA in theatre in 2001, and I continue to enjoy stage managing (which I really loved all over the Sa...Expand for more