Sharon Golden:  

Life After I graduated from LSH, I moved to College Park, Maryland. I graduated with a B.A. in Art History in 1992. Afterwards, I moved back to Lima for a couple of years, then out to Arizona and had a blast in the desert for about 5 years. I worked as a correctional officer and started going to school again to change careers (Nursing). I also started getting into outdoor activities in earnest while living in Arizona, and that's how I met Dave. He taught me how to rock climb, ski, and hike in the back country. In 1999, we moved near Seattle, Washington to get a taste of the Pacific Northwest and to allow me to continue my nursing education. In between degrees (2002), Dave and I hiked 2168.8 miles, the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in 4.5 months. It's hard to believe that we've been together for 11 years already. We were getting ready to do another distance hike in the Spring of 2005 (The Pacific Crest Trail) but we found out that I was pregnant with Sierra two weeks before I graduated from UW. So the hike's been put on hold for awhile. Though I passed my boards and became licensed, I just haven't felt up to working as a new ARNP at the same time as I am learning all about parenthood. We moved to Grand Junction, CO about 3 months after Sierra was born. I needed to get out of the rain and now that we are back in the desert, I am in heaven. We both work at the regional hospital. I enjoy my part time work as an RN on the cardiac unit. My main focus right now is spending time with our daughter and working on our new home on 5 acres just outside of town. Though our house is finished we have no landscaping yet, so we are busy with that as our "estate" is pretty barren. I've seemed to turn into a real country bumpkin so to speak as I am more interested...Expand for more