Chris Ashby:  

How do I sum up 57 years of life or even the past (nearly) 40 years since high school? I'm on myspace which tells more life- events, google myspace, go to Search and put in Chris Eason Ashby. One doesn't have to be a myspace member to peek in. I'm also on Reunion.com. I moved to L.A. in August, '74, a dream of mine since I visited friends here in the summer of '67. I married Joe Ashby (newswriter for ABC-7 for 37 years) in Feb. of '76 and we had our daughter Erin in 1980. I came here to do comedy however that was delayed by parenthood and stage fright. Erin took it up--without my prompting--and now she gives them a stand-up routine in L.A. I've worked in publishing, editing for court reporters, bounced around the ad department at the now-defunct May Co. downtown and at present, I do the hearing screens on newborns at a local hospital. If anyone had told me I'd be working in a hospital doing direct patient care, I'd have said they were out of their tiny minds. You'd be surprised how handy it is to have journalism experience in a hospital setting. Grammar and spelling are not taught in med or nursing school. Trust me. Then again, you don't call a copy editor if you need surgery or post-op care. I also have been a Senior in college for years and years but I never came up with a Plan B Major after my untoward fall from journalistic grace, so I've never graduated. Joe and I are members of several private and public gardens where we wander and rove and we also make fr...Expand for more