Dawn Coffinberry:  

HELLO EVERYONE, Wow, time passes fast. I am now 59 years old (May 5, 2023 updated), yet I remember my teen years as though it was yesterday and even on some days I remember playing with my childhood friend, Shelley Smith (now Anderson), who I have known since I was 3 years old (she graduated from Rogers high school 1983 or 84), when I was 6 years old on Longfellow street, in Spokane, where my grandparents lived. My two girls are 31 (August 24, 1990) and soon to be 26 (Jan. 27, 1995), both going on like 50 years old. They know way to much! I was (Oct. 31, 2014) retired from the State of Washington. I received my Bachelors in Business Administration, March of 2006 and I received my MBA in Public Administration/Human Resources in 2009 and am now going to school for my Doctorates in the philosophy of business administration. I started late at reaching for my goals but I am doing it! Working as well as going to school full time is not always easy, but I did it and am not going to give up! I have stoped a couple times but I really need to set an example for my girls and show people who never believed in me that I can do it! What can I say? I have never been married and I tell you I am not going to hold my breath! I have found that I don't need to have that someone to be happy. I just wish I could have learned that years ago. I would have focused more on my girls... Now when it comes to knowing me, I would have to say that even though I spent most of my younger school years there in Ellensburg, no one really knew me. I kept to myself and really had low self-esteem back then and just didn't share myself with anyone. My last year was at Mead High school, which was a great experience. Back then I really believed that I was nothing and would be nothing. I don't want any of you to believe that it was just the inter-action of my classmates, it was more so my family life. I went through so much more with my family and most of it was not good. So don't w...Expand for more