Stacy Diederich:  

Life Looking at my life I think of how much more I would like to do. I'll admit that I'm comfortable, and that family life is mostly a happy experience. I have two daughters that keep me busy, and a husband from the South with conservative leanings. His politics and mine cause us to bump heads during election time, but he goes off to work each day, and he's got a good heart. After high school, I went to Occidental College, getting my BA in Theatre Arts. A really useful degree, as is a liberal arts education! Shortly after graduation, I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. I have lived in Berkeley, Alameda, SF and now I live in San Leandro, CA, just south of Oakland. I became a cocktail waitress at a couple of popular bars. Life was a party for a while. Lots of dining out, wine tasting in the Napa Valley, skiing in Tahoe, etc. I decided I'd better start doing something a little more serious, so I got a job with a little office machine company in San Francisco. I got in as the computer clone business was taking off, so our company took off as well. I became the purchaser for the company, and saw it grow for a few years, then saw it shrink too. I took another buying position with a big computer aggregator, but they were sold, and changing management, so I jumped ship and went to one of their distributors. I worked there as a senior buyer in the Hewlett Packard group, but got laid off when the company lost a big contract. During all of this work time, I managed to get married, and have 2 great kids. Marriage came a little bit late in life for me, I was 32. Kids came even later. I was 36 when I had my first, and 40 with the seco...Expand for more