Dawn Gadsden:  

Life I have many good memories of high school; it was a lot of fun. Since then: I married an American scientist, Tim Johnson, originally from Minnesota, but who worked at York U for awhile, then we moved to Boston. In 2000, we moved to Pasco, Washington also known as the Tri-Cities (ironically, the biggest nuclear waste area of the United States - so I still get those stupid "do you glow" jokes), and in 2008 we moved across the river to Richland, WA. It is a desert, very sunny, and not very crowded - the middle of the Columbia Basin with three rivers surrounded by the Rockies, the Cascades and the Blue Mountains. Very pretty and peaceful, in a desolate kind of way. Yes, we have tumbleweeds! This area is also known for Washington state wines - we have more than 300 wineries now, all within an hour's drive. I have had kidney disease since my mid-twenties. As a result, we were told not to have children. In the last few years, I became quite ill and was placed on the kidney transplant list in June of 2015, began di...Expand for more