Kathleen Colton:  

FIND ME >> Kathleen Sanderson-Colton on facebook. Once I graduated from high school, I jumped into the working world headfirst and happily became quite successful fairly quickly. I expected my life would be settled somewhere in Southeastern Massachusetts, but, as we all know by now, fate is always adding a new card to your hand. While on a trip to extreme northern Maine to attend a close friend's wedding, I met a man who would become my husband. John and I married in 1984, moved to Eastern Maine and for a number of years, both worked for Bar Harbor Airlines based out of Bangor. In spite of several medical obstacles, I was finally blessed with the births of my two daughters who have become extraordinary young women. They are my life. I lived there for 13 years enjoying the proximity to Acadia National Park, Baxter State Park, many good friends and spectacular scenery all encased in a comfortably-paced life. Then my husband got an offer to transfer here to Southern Maine to take a lucrative position with a large company. With a heavy heart, I left that idyllic life and moved "down south". We purchased a home in Saco after spending a long, memorable summer at a rented home on a lake. We have lived here for just about 15 years and life just been a blur!! Hearing the word "no" too often while growing up, I promised that I would swing wide any doors that my kids chose to explore. Never missing an event, the better part of the last two decades has been spent cheering them on from the bleachers. Those circumstances required me to temporarily surrender many of my pursuits, but I wouldn't trade the pasta-party-hosting, the uniform-washing, the homecoming-decorating, the thousands of water bottles, injuries (real and imagined), thousands of hours of videotape and countless photos, gobs of gasoline, sweet victories, bitter defeats, hairspray, costumes and bobby pins, the reeking-beyond-belief equipment bags and oh, the SCADS of footwear along with spending enough money to feed a small country, for anything! A full calendar also comes from being just outside of Portland and a little over an hour to Boston. My oldest graduated from Oswego State University in NY in May '11. She received two BA's in Econom...Expand for more