Tim Sheehan:  

I was grateful to leave home after graduation. I did a short stint as Assistant Pastor at First Presbyterian Church over the summer before I went off to spend 4 years at the University of No Credit (UNC) where I played/performed/taught alot of guitar, got involved in Martial Arts, and eventually decided that teaching in a public school was a Bad Idea. During that time, I started/taught a very successful Guitar Program at Aims Junior College, which lasted for 5 more years. After my four years at UNC were up, I got married and became a Luthier. .A few years later, I started a Guitar Boutique, where I sold, repaired, and built custom-made guitars, banjos and dulcimers for discerning customers. Played even more guitar professionally.Also became serious about Martial Arts . I was divorced in 1979,and shut down the Boutique shortly after. I spent the next decade or so as a full-time Martial Artist. I opened the first real Chinese and Filipino School outside of California at that time in Greeley, Colo. During that time, I also became an Acupuncturist, a Chinese Herbalist, a Naturopath/Homeopath, a Hypnotherapist, and an EMT. Among other things. I spent some time working on a ranch in Wy occasionally. And I played with Lotus cars and Harley Davidson motorcycles to keep me sane. Some of my patients affectionately called me the "Cowboy Kung Fu Biker Acupuncturist" during that time. Given what I've heard some of my patients call their allopathic Dr's, I don't think it was so bad... I moved to Cheyenne, Wy in the early 90's to found a sister Martial School and to practice acupuncture. Both enterprises were a first for the State in some ways, and both are still thriving today. I am privileged to teach several martial arts from the Chinese, Filipino, Hindu, and Indonesian Cultures, and I am the Lineage Inheritor (master) for two of them. Currently, I own a "formal" house close to town which I expect to sell in the near future. I recently sold my small ranch, which allowed me to move farther out in the boonies to a more remote section of Paradise. ...Expand for more