Karen Thumm:  

After U High I graduated from The University of Michigan with a degree in English Literature (only slightly more useful than a degree in the fine arts, Mom). I was married right after graduation but widowed a year and a half later. For the following four months I lived in Seoul, South Korea with my parents and then accompanied them on a long trip home with stops in Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Greece, Holland and a few other countries. It was the trip of a lifetime! Back home in Ann Arbor, I got a job at University Microfilms processing Doctoral dissertations and Masters theses for microfilming and worked there for almost three years. I was remarried in 1970 to John Thumm of Ann Arbor and the following Spring we moved Up North near Traverse City where my husband bought a small town dental practice. We’ve enjoyed the country life up here ever since. In 1984 I graduated with an Associates degree in commercial art from Northwestern Michigan College. For the next two years I worked at a bill board company in Traverse City and then did freelance design work for a number of years. Having not succeeded much as a graphic designer, I turned my attenti...Expand for more