Karen McPhetridge:  

It's hard to believe it's been almost 40 years since high school. I got married right out of high school and I'm still married to the same great guy altho we did have a 5 year "break" along the way. I have four wonderful children, a son and three daughters and 6 grandchildren. After living in so cal all our lives, we decided to move the woods near Lake Tahoe to raise our children. We lived there for 23 years out in the woods trying our hands at gardening, canning, raising farm animals, horses, riding dirt bikes, and home schooling. I finally went back to school myself in 1993 and graduated from Sacramento State in 1996. I went on to law school and earned my J.D. in 2004. In 2005, ...Expand for more