Patricia Bistline:  

After graduation I went to nursing school first at Fairleigh Dickinson then decided on a better education at St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing. It was located right across the street from Columbia University where I met my husband. He is from Idaho but he's no cowboy! He preferred to duke it out in a courtroom. Moved to St. Louis 33 years ago following a job offer from Monsanto. They said they needed a lawyer with Supreme Court experience because the case they needed him for was surely headed there. It was the Agent Orange case! Well, it didn't go there but settled instead. It still rears its ugly head every now and then. Chemical companies are the enemy, don't ya know! St. Louis has turned out to be a wonderful place to live with everything New York had to offer minus the subways. After having done Visiting Nurse work in NYC, I did more of that here. Also finished my BSN (because the ANA told me a BA in Sociology wasn't good enough) and added a specialty certification in Gerontology. I held that for 15 years. Then I decided to do something purely for myself and took up oil painting. Before long I was teaching it and taught as many as 6 classes a week in continuing education in the local college and school districts. That lead to some pretty incredible opportunities including now having 2 copies of my work in the Vatican. If you had told me 30 years ago that that is what would happen for me I'd have said you were insane. It ...Expand for more