Rona Evartt:
CLASS OF 1978
Mingus Union High SchoolClass of 1978
Cottonwood, AZ
Mountain Home Junior High SchoolClass of 2004
Mountain home, ID
Glenns Ferry High SchoolClass of 2002
Glenns ferry, ID
John Adams Elementary SchoolClass of 1972
Santa ana, CA
Panorama Elementary SchoolClass of 1972
Santa ana, CA
Rona's Story
Life
The photo is from my recent trip to New York to see Andi before she moves to New Zealand. This is in front of the City's library. One of my favorite spots.
My oldest daughter, Dani, is married and has my 2 precious grand kids. She met her husband while visiting me just after I returned to Cottonwood. I moved back just over 4 years ago. Shortly after she got married (in Boise where she was attending college), they returned to Cottonwood. Idaho wasn't for a homegrown Az. boy. I am so glad, I LOVE being a grandmother.
Andi (Andrea) is my second daughter. She graduated a year ago May from college in Denver and is now living and working in Manhattan for UBS. I hate that she is so far, but to be 22, educated, and beautiful, I wish her all the adventure I passed down! Dani and Andi each spent a year as exchange students while in high school. Dani in Latvia and Andi in Hungary.
Joey (Joanna) graduated from Mingus and is on her way to NAU. It is so weird to have seen her and my youngest, Zoe, playing on the same volleyball, basketball, and tennis courts I played! I never really thought I would return to the Sedona area. We are true Marauder fans, so the girls wanted to live in Cottonwood so they could attend Mingus. (I may have grown up Sedona, but I would have felt a traitor shouting for another team against Mingus!) So, here I am coming full circle!
When my ex and I divorced in '94, we had owned a restaurant in Sedona. I needed to find a new direction and went for a drive. I went to visit my sister, Susan, in Idaho, and just decided to stay awhile. I didn't mean for ...Expand for more
it to be 10 years, but what a ride! I found a new direction in teaching in behavioral departments in schools. The way I returned to Cottonwood is too long to tell, so let's just say I am the 9th grade Instructor at New Visions Academy in Cottonwood. I have returned to college, hopefully to finally complete at least ONE area of study. (I started in Idaho in elementary sp.ed., then elementary behavioral. When I moved back, NVA decided to only have high school after my first year, so now must go secondary with an emphasis in behavioral.) "Back in the day" I was going to be a veterinarian, then a writer (journalist/novelist), then went to seminary (ya-ya!) for awhile. Remember: "Not all who wander are lost!"
Well, the girls and I spent our summers traveling the US. I still have much to see. One summer we tried to see 17 states and drive 15,000 miles. We came up short with 15 states and between 8-10,000 miles. I don't believe in maps and we had so much fun in some areas, we stayed too long. During one long night of severe storms, I pulled into a Walmart in the middle of NOWHERE and asked where we were. The lady told me the town, but I said, "No, what state?" I think it was Oklahoma. A hub cap is still in some sunflower field there and another in Kansas along with our muffler. We broke down in Louisiana but some guy with a chicken feather at a local gas (and Voo-doo)station did something and we got home. We put another 75,000 miles on the van before I sold it!
Well, have to go work on the tree house I am building for my grandson for his 3rd birthday! Aloha
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