Cathy Busha played Division II college basketball for four years with the Lady Marauders
(how's that for an oxymoron?) in Lancaster, PA. After college, Cathy taught 8th grade English and coached high school girls basketball, softball, and track and field (Cathy still holds the shot put record at her high school). During her fourth year of teaching and coaching, she came out to herself as a lesbian. Had she come out on the job or been 'outed' she would have been fired. Coach Busha made the painful decision to leave teaching and coaching. After a year in the Master's of Journalism program at Temple University, Cathy decided that she wanted to live in wide open spaces. She sold most of what she owned, packed up the car, and camped her way across the Northern US and Canada for four months. In 1998, she moved to Tucson, sight unseen. Cathy was hired by Wingspan, Southern Arizona's LGBT Community Center, where she worked for nine years. This past November, Cathy became the first Director for the Office of LGBTQ Affairs at the University of Arizona. Cathy is happy to come full circle--back to her first love--education--while also working for the LGBTQ community.

ODYSSEY STORYTELLING PHOTOS and BIOS

JUNE 21, 2008 -
"Help Me! - The Coach Show"

Lillian MacNeill: I was a teenager in the forties, a beatnik in the fifties, a hippie in the sixties, i don't remember much about the seventies, a yuppie in the eighties, a stranger in Tucson in the nineties and in the new 21st century, I am just old me. Along the way I have been a shabis goy, babysitter, sales clerk, file clerk, dancer, actress, film script supervisor, wife, mother, poor, rich and poor, and a hopelessly, doomed heterosexual.

Barry Infuso serves as the 'Dean of Cuisine' at Pima Community College, Desert Vista Campus. He is the food writer for Tucson Lifestyle Magazine and is the founder and president of Slow Food Tucson. He is active with the Pascua Yaqui head Start Program where he teaches cooking with kids.

Earl Wettstein. As a result of the bad death of his favorite aunt Gladys, Earl Wettstein became deeply involved as a volunteer in the death with dignity movement 1994-2004. He created Arizonans for Death with Dignity, a statewide organization of 2000 members and 12 chapters, and served as its first president. He also was on the national Board of The Hemlock Society and was the first national president of Final Exit Network when it broke away from Hemlock.  An Army vet and University of Minnesota graduate, Wettstein had a successful Minneapolis/Houston/Tucson advertising career, owning Wettstein/Bolchalk Marketing until he retired in 1996. Today he is an artist with work in several local galleries. His website is www.oiloiloil.com Married to realtor Sherie Broekema; two grown daughters in Tucson - Lisa and Gillian.

Ann Marie Hoff grew up in Illinois on a dairy farm, working on the dairy milking cows, baling hay all the farm stuff. Went to Univ. of Wisconsin, got degrees in Animal Science, Studio Art, and a Minor in creative writing. At senior art show was told by Chancellor she was a better writer than artist. Ann has had over 60 poems published, none lately. Today for art, Ann makes large and smaller ceramic bowls, figure sculpture, large platters, sinks, portraits of cats and dogs. Max Gallery, Illusions Gallery, Tucson Museum of Art, and 527 Gallery in Jerome Arizona represent her. Ann sold pharmaceuticals for twenty years, and then opened her own business as a psychic medium, channeller for spirit guides and animal communications ( www.RosezellasWay.com ). She came to Tucson to get a MS in Animal Science at the U of A, and she lives with 2 cats, a recently deceased dog, and three horses. She is worried that writing poetry erased the skill of plot writing from her repertoire forever!

Suzanne Ellenbogen is a friend, partner, sister, daughter, mother of furry four-legged fiends. She has been a reluctant accountant for 30 years, a business consultant, artist and a professional coach. Always helping people with decision making and through transitions, she is at a crossroad herself. As a friend put it " you are unemployable", which is why she has been her own boss for 20 years. Combining her financial expertise with her ability to listen and nurture, Suzanne established her coaching practice in 2006 after becoming certified. But who will show up to tell her story? The coach or coachee?