Tricia Morgan:  

A tiny little secret: I didn't ACTUALLY graduate from Durango High School, though I still consider myself part of the DHS class of 1979. We moved to Denver the summer before our senior year and I went to Alameda HS. I hated it so much, I sort of bailed on my academic future-- took typing, Spanish, and cooking, and graduated one Friday in January. Three days later I started college at CU Denver. I took my time getting through college (kept taking time off to do things like a year at Hebrew U in Jerusalem, hitchhiking around Europe, living on a sailboat). Eventually I graduated from a physician assistant program at CU and pretty much left immediately for a three month tour as a health volunteer in Uganda (here is where the Gilligan's Island theme starts humming softly in your head). Three months turned to 22 years and I have not lived in the US since. I spent the first part of that time in a village health clinic in rural Uganda, then moved to a pediatric AIDS research project in the capital. Spent some time traveling, worked on a university ship and eventually fell in love with a British diplomat (or perhaps, in retrospect, I fell in love with the IDEA of a British diplomat), and he was next posted to Thailand. When we arrived in Bangkok I kicked around aimlessly for a couple of weeks, got a job stamping visas in the Embassy for $2 an hour,...Expand for more