Karen Marchand:  

Life ive always been an artist & have engaged in a variety of traditional & avant garde artistic activities-i was a flower child in the sixties and lived in the haight ashbury from 1965 - 1970 then traveled around the country for a while with my back pack & my husband steve magenheimer.after that we moved back to the bay area and have been here ever since living mostly in berkeley where we are "normal"(steven and i divorced a few years ago but remain good freinds - weve now known each other for 44 years. im enjoying my single life but am also interested in remarrying though i dont feel frantic about it. i recently earned a degree in multimedia and am working on the next level- my third degree -ha ha- life remains fascinating and im glad i never get bored.i keep learning new things and my family is precious to me. i am amazed that the class of 65 is almost 60 and this site is fascinating to me perhaps just bacause of the realisation that so much time has passed. i remember almost nothing of high school(too traumatic )so i find every ones comments very interesting! my mother has been recently diagnosed with lung cancer in both lungs - the legacy of 65 years of smoking tobacco.she is 77 and i am 57 -i can remember playing at tea parties and art projects with her when i was little and now we sit together and drink tea having weathered many battles before we both became adults who love each other. happy new year - it doesnt seem much different from the old year- scary beautiful and limited w...Expand for more