Linda Barrett:  

Well, here I am again ... A lot has happened in the last year. I retired from the City of Tempe after working 21 years as a Library Specialist at the Tempe Public Library. I now work as my husband's office assistant in his law practice in Tempe ... and I love it! We've been traveling a lot since then, but have currently slowed in order to refocus our priorties and channel our energies in a different direction. We are at the end of a total remodel of my home in Tempe ... the same home I grew up in ... and once that's done, we'll be putting it up for sale in order to down size and simplify. This simplier life means we'll be moving to Belle Vernon, PA, where my son and his family have their home and were I lived for over 5 years in the 70s. Yes ... I'm moving from the dry brown desert to lush green verdant vistas ... and admittedly, the cold, but having been born in Alaska, I don't think I'll mind it. The town is set on top of a hill and overlooks the Monongahela River. It's a small, close knit community of less than 2, 000 people, but only ...Expand for more