Rusty Cecile la Violette:  

Schooling after Shadle? I have eight years of college which includes a BA and Masters degrees. I majored in education and probably should have gone into law. I totally enjoyed my teaching and administration work, but now find I am spending much time helping others find answers to legal questions in their lives. Maybe I will just go back to school and get the "law" sheepskin to prove I know what I am doing, legal-wise. I have not lived what one would call a normal life. Some of my experiences (in additional to the "normal" things: family, friends, etc) have included numerous "jobs" which included (but were not limited to) waitressing and "car- hopped" my way through college; bartender; stud-logger; worked at a gold mine; artist painting murals on vans, trucks and buildings; only female counselor at a Boy's Reform School-Forestry Camp in the State; District Court Judge Pro. Tem.; Title IV Indian Education Director for four School Districts; Tutor Coordinator; Recreation director for a town's summer children's programs and a Recreation director for a nursing home; Conference Organizer; vice-principal; Teacher (in schools from 100 students to 2000+students, from the ocean, to the desert, to the mountains, from kindergarten to college); (My favorite teaching assignment was at an alternative school in Pasco, WA); A free-lance artist; a writer; and an ordained minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ working in jail and motorcycle ministries. I have three unique and precious sons, and two step-daughters, and a bevy of grandchildren and step-grandchildren. Lines from one of my published poems say: "I was going to change the world. Instead, I changed diapers, and sheets, and husbands." It says I changed husbands. Well, I have four deceased husbands. As I look back on my life, I have crowded a lot of LIVING into a few quickly-flying-by years. In addition to those marriages, I was single for 9 years and those are the years I have gleaned a lot of infor...Expand for more