Thea / Tedi Kulesa:  

My story begins in 1979: I moved to Antioch in 1979, when my wayward mother tried to improve her life by leaving Glendora, CA. I was in 5th grade and started at Turner Elementary. My mom had some unhealthy habits that landed me in foster care, with my step aunt, Sherrie Boggs (Joey, Sean & Anne Boggs were her children). I then attended Kimball Elementary, Mr. Spires 5th grade class. I made some quality friends, Lance Webb and Scott Ramsey. Mrs. Millers 6th grade class was the best. I went on to do 3 years at Antioch Junior High School, and 1 year at Antioch High School. Sudden life circumstances and CPS put me back in southern California by the end of the year, 1985. I left so quickly, I lost touch many people I was close with. People I would likely be friends with this day. Twin Peaks, Ca Lake Arrowhead Resorts community and Rim of the World High School. Transplanting from Antioch, which was so fashion backwards,m to Lake Arrowhead was a mind blowing eye opening experience. It fundamentally changed who I am today. I went from being a Ozzy Loving metal head to a PIL loving punk. ,In Antioch you got beat up and called MOD for anything other than Metal or Hip Hop. Rim embraced the counter culture. it was fabulous. I made life long friends at that school. Many of whom I still speak with regularly today. That small mountain had a magic way of bringing all kinds of styles, music, interests and socio-economical backgrounds together. We were all in it together. Stuck, on that stupid mountain with nothing to do. :) Jobs sucked as well.. You were either making pizza, At Mr. M's or Romacks, or working at Santa's Slave pit, otherwise known as Santa's Village. If you were lucky, you worked at Stater Bros or Jensens. So you didn;t smell like Pizza and had a nice climate controlled building. Do to family circumstances I was out on my own at age 17, and therefore causing me to graduate in 1988 instead of 87. That was ok, because I didn't do the Mountain High route. I received a real diploma while working full time to support myself. 1988-1991: I bounced around from job to job, doing a lot of mechanic work and some Audio Video production work and I went to Club Metro a lot. I loved dancing and hanging out with friends. I landed a manager position at Miller's Outpost, which offered medical that I much needed, due to being a type 1 d...Expand for more