Lani’s current vocation is being the business owner of Cognition Quest Resources. She spends most of her day working on a new website for her business and taking classes to learn web development and graphic design. She also has other educational interests, and research interests, … read more.

Paul spends leisure time on road and mountain bikes when weather permits, and in yoga classes year-round. His wife Karen and he just returned from a yoga retreat in Troncones, Mexico. Our UU Religious Education director, Stephanie Gronholz, often teaches him yoga and Pilates. Paul … read more.

Karen is a Spokane lawyer, mother, and travel enthusiast. She and Paul moved to Spokane in August 1994. That same month, they married, she passed the bar exam, and Paul began his job at Eastern Washington University. Karen has been fortunate to represent public-interest environmental … read more.

Dave’s wife, Madeleine Lefebvre, and he are both retired Alaska State employees. He was Alaska’s Revisor of Statutes and Madeleine was a University of Alaska employee. After he retired, his primary relaxation was sailing and he also did a lot of prop design and construction … read more.

Dave was born in Seattle in 1943, raised in Oakland, California, managed a wholesale upholstery business in San Francisco and was active in the Presbyterian Church. He has always been involved in political or groups working on social and environmental issues, but when COVID-19 hit, … read more.

Michele considers herself fortunate to be retired. Her favorite ways to spend her time are traveling, watching travel shows, reading, and knitting/crocheting. She loves spending time with her dad and her daughter and her daughter’s family, who all live in Spokane. She also enjoys puttering … read more.

By workday, John is a software development manager at WebMD Health Services. He manages a team of software developers in the U.S., Argentina, and India that produce health and wellness apps and provide systems software for our health coaches and nurses for telephonic coaching, group … read more.

The COVID-19 lockdown, combined with the proliferation of Zoom, has opened up endless possibilities for new affiliations outside normal geographic boundaries. Mike was initially drawn to UUCS after hearing of problems within the UUA highlighted by its banning of Todd’s book. Then, when Mike learned … read more.

Dick lives in Seattle and took early retirement 20 years ago from applied mathematics and scientific computing at Boeing — for a second career as a UU-type global citizen. Yet Dick also intended to squeeze in plenty of hiking, backpacking, and biking, along with a … read more.