Karen Chance:  

First of all - Happy New Year Y'All! And secondly - if anyone saw my "autobiography" in the last reunion collection that I'm aware of (2004-5)- - - Please disregard mine! It was a joke written by my dear old best friend (and superlative, published! fiction writer) Jan Gleiter. It was submitted with an introduction saying the above, but this important info was struck from the final version, thereby making me look like a a completely insensitive pompous ass! (If you missed that particular biography- oh goody!) Here is one from my own hand: Although my very first career goal was to be Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring (remember Howdy Doody), I went through a number of other wonderful careers before getting back to that. I started as a counselor in a women's clinic; then was an art teacher in Fairfax County Public Schools; a conservator at the Library of Congress; a therapist in family preservation, with homeless people in Denver, and with Hospice, in Maine. I finally had an opportunity to try out being Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring in the Maine woods in recent years, but that wasn't quite it either, so I'm now enjoying...Expand for more