Kara Marzahn:  

Life I'm just going to keep this simple by sticking it all in one box. That's me now; efficient. Flash back to 1988: I graduated from CHS. Attended one year at RIC. I don't think I consumed anything other than pizza and beer for a year. Probably attended a dozen classes all year. The high school "good girl" needed a break. So, I went on leave from RIC, joined the circus... actually, I joined a travelling theatre group, and went around the country living in a tent for about a year and a half. It was very cool in many ways. And scary at times. Sad at others. Often cold. But, I went hiking and found ancient drawings in the rocks of the Superstition Mountains in Arizona. I watched the clouds move across the moon at the top of a mesa in Colorado. I helped build a black box theatre in Chicago. So much more. I missed home though and knew that it wasn't for me. I came back to RIC and got an apartment about a mile from the college. I majored in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, a program which got emliminated so I had to do the degree as a self-directed course of study. It was hard but interesting. I spent some time in France. Mostly because I realized I didn't want to really do that with my life. While I was at RIC, a roommate of mine got a back sprain. As an artist, I knew something about the human body, so I volunteered to do some massage to help out the healing process. It worked so well, he stopped taking meds and told me I should do it for real. I was so moved by that experience, that I checked out the field of muscular therapy. As I perused the advertising materials I thought, "Hmmm... you get to work with people one on one, it's medicinal, it's problem-solving, you can make your own hours... Sounds good!" So I left RIC in my last semester and went to MTI in Cambridge, MA. Two years later, I was a licensed muscular therapist. One of my teachers recommended me for a position as a chiropractic assistant. I stayed in that job for another two years learning about injuries and treatments. My own practice was growing simultaneous...Expand for more