Laura Cunningham:  

After high school, I joined the Army--yeah, I know, but figured I’d learn a foreign language, travel & get a (mostly) free college education. They taught me Arabic, moved me to Arizona, California, N Carolina & Munich--where I also learned German & a smattering of Greek from a boyfriend. I returned to Indy (1st marriage done & married-but-not-living-with #2--long story, purely platonic) to get my Construction Engineering from Purdue before moving back to AZ to work as an army civilian. Swapped husband #2 for #3 in Hawaii (it was halfway--he was in Korea for a year), then moved to Alabama. Worked there as real-time programmer in helicopter flight-simulation--cool job flying Apache & Blackhawk sims, I was a legend at Fort Rucker in my black flight suit & red cowboy boots! Divorced #3 & married #4, then he retired from flying Apaches & moved us to St. Louis to work for Boeing, I worked at DISA, running database mgmt programs for DOD. Job dissatisfaction & divorce #4 took their toll in 2006, but I survived thanks to a great therapist, a LOT of yoga, and Stephen Cope’s "Yoga and the Quest for the True Self", which started me meditating & studying the teachings of the Buddha. Early retirement 12/31/2010 freed me to travel as I please, and I started training for a dream trip to Tanzania & a full-moon summit...Expand for more