5/1/05
I keep myself "busy" playing Tetris on the computer, reading,
listening to books on tape, playing solitare and watching
"Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" on tv. Hubby and I watch
"Everybody Loves Raymond" and call it "The fight show." I've
gained a little weight and my clothes are feeling tight. I do
some volunteering and occasionally take a walk. In
other words, I'm not up much. Life is a bit boring but good.
ADVENTURES SINCE '67
I transferred to Tahoe Truckee High School for the last
semester of my senior year, but I have always identified with
my Awalt graduating class. Fresh out of high school, I
attended California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland,
California. I loved it, but I completed only one year. I was
an arts and crafts counselor for two summers '68 and '69)
and worked at a Girl Scout camp in the San Fernando
mountains. In between those summers I traveled to
Progreso, Yucatan, Mexico. Upon my return from Mexico, I
enrolled at Foothill College, tried U.C. Berkeley for a
semester, then returned to Foothill College and FINALLY
earned my 2-year AA degree in '71. I held various clerical
jobs in Silicon Valley, my favorite one being in the computer
center at Stanford University. I moonlighted as an artists
model and co- founded the Palo Alto Models Guild. I met my
future husband, an artist, in '75, we married in '79 and we
moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma in '80. Three days after our
daughter was born in '85, we moved to Joplin, Missouri. We
moved to Michigan in '89 and have lived here ever since.
Currently, I have the good fortune to be a homemaker and
volunteer (school district, church, and sometimes politics). I
switched my artistic creative outlet to writing after marriage
so that I could have an identity separate from my husband's.
Other hobbies include gardening, cooking, stamp collecting,
reading and walking.
Send a message to Carol Ligda (now Ligda-Wong) '67