Patricia Michaud:  

What a ride it's been! Hard to believe it's been this long...but to date I've led a full and very rewarding life. I married and had 3 wonderful sons. We lived in the Philadelphia area for 5 years before being transferred to Moraga, California. We lived in the SF Bay area for 10 years. It was like living in a vacation land! They were very good years. When the boys were 14, 7 and 4 years old we were transferred to the Chicago area - I went kicking and screaming, never having been to Chicago and all I heard was how long and cold the winters were. Adjusting from living in the San Francisco bay area to cold and windy Chicago wasn't easy - but i did survive. Unfortunately my marriage didn't and after 18 years of marriage we divorced. I didn't finish college following high school and always regretted it. So, I found a company (Motorola) that offered an education assistance program and went to work full time as an adm...Expand for more