Linnea Christiani:  

I've lived in the San Francisco Bay Area permanently since 1969. My parents moved here in 1965, when I was attending Douglass College in N.J. , but I remained in the East to finish school. During that time, I married Tom Woodward (class of 64) and transferred to the U. of Md. However, I spent my summers in CA. working at the Stanford University Library and we moved to Palo Alto right after Tom graduated from the Maryland Academy of Art in Baltimore. We divorced in 1971. I currently live in Berkeley, CA. with my husband Rick Christiani, whom I married in 1974. We have 2 grown children: our daughter Ashley (from my marriage to Tom ) was born in 1969, and our son Eric was born in 1975. Ashley has given me 2 beautiful grandchildren, Zoe (8) and William (4). She's a physician and lives nearby. Eric is still unmarried and lives in Jackson, Wy. Rick and I have been together since 1973. We lived for 3 years in a coastal redwood forest west of Palo Alto before moving to Berkeley in 1976 to do graduate work at the University of CA. I earned a masters degree in library & information science and Rick earned one in architecture. He currently runs an architectural firm in San Francisco (Christiani Johnson Architects) which specializes in housing. I spent 8 years automating academic and corporate libraries and the next 22 years working in the information industry, primarily managing commercial online databases and licensing electronic information. Most recently, I was V.P. of Business Development for a consulting company which helped publishers license content to internet services. I retired in 2008, to have more time for travel, my grandchildren, writing and volunteer work. My husband Rick was born and raised in California and became an avid rock climber and skier while in high school. Over the years, I learned to share his love of the mountains...Expand for more