Avis Beiden:  

I'm still in Santa Cruz :-) I now live in the SC Mountains (Boulder Creek), very close to Big Basin State Park with my two kids (son: Nik, 14 and daughter: Jordan, 9) husband (Brian), dog and cat (Ozzie and Maisy, respectively). I married my college sweetheart 1 month after graduating from UCSC (with a BA in Psychology), but it barely lasted a couple of years before we divorced. I met my "now" husband, Brian in 1993 and our son was born in 1994. I worked my way through college at a computer consulting firm, where I held many positions (accounting, sales, mktg, service/support, training and operations mgmt) before seeking some corporate experience in my favorite area: training. I became a "bag-toting" technical trainer for a SW company in the Silicon Valley for a couple of years before starting my own company The Corporate Gardener, where...Expand for more