Cathy Pfeil
  • Home
    • Cathy"s World >
      • Sketches, Paintings
      • More Mandalas
    • Videos
    • Letters to Anna, Book
  • Currents - my blog
  • Mandala Store

To Seattle

10/1/2013

0 Comments

 
Picture
 After graduation I moved to Seattle and attended Northwest College for Medical Assistants.  I worked at several hospitals and an alcohol rehabilitation center.  I was accepted the first Emergency Medical Technicians that was open to women, and actively pursued becoming a firefighter. I also was active with the Feminist Karate Union.  There I built my strength and endurance to be strong enough to become a firefighter.  After a long legal battle we had won the right to simply take the test.  That first year none of us could pass the physical test, possibly because the men taking the test had been practicing together at one of the firehouses for weeks before the test, but the following year women did pass.  I am really proud to have played a role in this process. 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Cathy Pfeil

    Welcome to my blog.  Here I will write about all things Cathy. 
    Through thick and, okay thicker, I will lead you through all kinds of metaphysical adventures, bizarre experiences and the on going journey of staying in body as long as possible with a neurodegenerative disease folding brain
    proteins into misfit origami.
     

    Archives

    December 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    July 2018
    May 2017
    October 2016
    May 2016
    December 2015
    October 2015
    August 2015
    May 2015
    January 2015
    August 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

  • Home
    • Cathy"s World >
      • Sketches, Paintings
      • More Mandalas
    • Videos
    • Letters to Anna, Book
  • Currents - my blog
  • Mandala Store