gift of identity and comfort.
Writing has always been important to her, as well as reading. Her favorite book as a child was The Boxcar Children. In 2nd grade, she wrote and illustrated a slanted story about a man who was given three wishes by a fairy. He asked for "vegetables, vegetables, vegetables" and was given them in cans falling from the sky. In 6th grade she wrote her will and had it legally (?) witnessed by her teacher, who laughed heartily at her pretentious language, the best part!
Mitcham has a B.A. in English Literature; an A.A.S. in Nursing (having worked mainly as an RN in psychiatric settings); and a M.Ac. (having worked both in private practice and in the Denver County Jail's more limited acupuncture program for inmates).
She and her husband Carl have four children and 7 grandchildren. They live in Denver in an 1889 building, now remodeled and referred to as The Schoolhouse, because it was. They have also built a small house in the ruins of an old coal mining camp called Alamo. Both places speak to them spiritually.
