Rebecca Clark:  

Since the post below life has changed again. My father died on Christmas day 2020. He was 92 and had a good life. I was able to keep him at home with hospice care help. Since then I have sold his house - just too expensive in San Diego and I had stopped working to care for him. I have moved to Tucson Arizona near my brother and plan to buy a little house here. The cost of living is much more doable and Tucson is a very green desert. And the storms during the monsoon are amazing!! My dog Gus and I are settling in and avoiding the heat for now. I'm working for UNC-Chapel Hill remotely since Jan 2022. I hope all of you are doing well. Isn't it weird to be approaching retirement age?!! I hope old friends remember me with kindness. Because High School is a weird time of life. I thought that I'd be involved in art for a living, probably commercial art. But instead I fell into a rather odd line of work - protecting people who choose to be human subjects in research. Who knew - there's a whole process and lots of laws and regulations! I mostly worked for community hospitals in the San Diego area. I moved from San Diego in January of 2007 to far western South Carolina with some very good friends. We all wanted a change from Southern California and they wanted to raise their kids in a different environment. I bought a house very close to Clemson University and started to settle into life there. Then I got this job offer I couldn't sa...Expand for more