Katherine Baran:  

A few years after high school I married a guy I met in high school. We met on the trip to Germany my junior year. He had joined the the Army in '77, we got married in '81 and traveled for the next 16 years. We had a son, born in Pisa, Italy in 1983. We've lived in Augusta, Georgia, Near Pisa, Livorno, Italy, Ogden, Utah, Mannheim, Germany, Louisiana and El Paso, Texas. We had a load of fun and saw so many things I would have never seen! Once I left home my attitudes and ideas changed so much about the world around me. Most of you would not believe how different I am now than the confused, floundering weirdo I was in high school. I guess we all just learn lessons and grow up. I had the opportunity to do all kinds of work over the years. I worked ias a motel desk clerk, in a clothing outlet in Ogden, a clerk in a preservation and packing facility for the US Gov't. on a military base in Utah, managed a thrift shop on an Army base in Germany, (talk about some "unique" stuff!) and then went to Louisiana Tech for a year until we had to move again. Our son turned out liking school about as much as I did and we seriously thought he would turn out to be a championship burger flipper or a professional cart jockey at Walmart, but his senior year of high school he decided he wanted to go to pastry school. We were able to make that happen for him and he is a successful Pastry Chef (or as we jokingly refer to him at home----a Master Baker---omg, I STILL kill myself with the bad jokes!) for a downtown hotel here in Cleveland. Update: 12/2011--Our s...Expand for more