Mary Boule:  

Life My family moved a lot when I was a child. After spending a few years in Schaumburg, Illinois, we moved to Claremont, California just in time for fifth grade. Thank goodness we stayed put after that, and I got to go to junior high and high school in one place. I feel fortunate and grateful to have had the life experiences I've crammed into my years since high school. People who knew me at Claremont won't be surprised to find out I continued acting, singing, and writing at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and throughout my life. I've been a newspaper columnist for The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon since 1987. Before that I had a career in TV news and hosted TV talk shows in Seattle and Portland. I've done theater along the way, and have sung hundreds of commercial jingles (I was the singing voice of a roll of Charmin toilet paper once -- did you recognize my voice???) but the accomplishment that was hardest and brought me the most pleasure was raising my daughter, Alex. She's a young opera singer living in New York City, who sings much better than I ever did. ...Expand for more