Arleigh Stein:  

The last 40 years have been a wonderful ride, with each year better than the one before. As a registered nurse, I worked intensive care, cardiac care, and emergency room. The work was exciting, my co-workers were fun, and I was helping people regain their health. During this time, I met and married my husband, Richard. We moved to Atlanta where he did his fellowship in gastroenterology. After a brief stop in LA where we were in danger of raising 3 Valley Girls, we moved to Seattle. Home was on an island in the middle of a huge freshwater lake. It was lovely. I became professional volunteer, a soccer mom, coached our daughters' sports teams and joined the PTA. Those were halcyon days! I studied herbology, homeopathy, Native American skills for living with the earth (I can make a fire without matches), hide tanning, animal tracking, and anything else that caught my fancy. We rafted down the Grand Canyon, and spent December vacations cross country skiing in Yellowstone National Park. We traveled extensively overseas, and at one point, my husband and I joined a dance troop that perform...Expand for more