Ken Arment

Hi Again: 

    The last most of you ever saw me, I was heading for my senior year at a little high school (Graduating class was almost 80 I think!) in Coulee Dam Washington. I was really pre-occupied with football then,  I had a childhood paralysis in one leg and I'm so optimistic and naive (still). Must have been that Self-image class I had from Jim Kennet as a sophomore. Got a very small tuition scholarship ($300 bucks or something) to play football at a JC in Eastern Oregon and became student President, and homecoming king (It was a
really small school ok?) 

    Then I wandered back to Seattle, worked at a shipyard in Ballard and finished my undergrad at the Dub in Economics. I didn't want to work in a bank and with the shipyard stuff got laid off a lot back then. Came down to flying or law school (had a couple of professors at my JC recommend it eben though I didn't even know how then). If Top Gun had come out a little sooner, maybe the military thing wouldn't have scared me so much. So I went to law school in California. Lost most of the hair I had left! Met
my Ex-wife there (married 10 years, one daughter who is 10 now). I wanted to live in Idaho (family liked the outdoors) and moved up there. 

    First job was as a Deputy Attorney General for the Idaho Department of Water Resources in Boise. Then went into private civil practice doing natural resources, commercial and insurance defense like work. I practiced for 12 years but had extraneous things happen that caused like an early midlife crisis. My grandmother got Alzheimer's and I was the one to take care of her legally. My father had been an only child and died when I was 11. It was hard on me, made me question a lot about who I was and where in life thing. It started this transition. 

    I now live up in the mountains of central Idaho. No white supremacists. Twelve miles to my PO Box as there is no rural mail delivery. Its about 22 miles from the semi-resort town of McCall, 5,000 feet elevation, long winters, and lots of nature. This is the first year I've seen wolves. Two years ago there was a moose that fell into the ice and was frozen right off the road with its rear end sticking up out of the ice for at least 2 months. Thought I'd be up here a max of 2 years, is 4 years now and scary that I like it so well.

    Probably the weirdest thing I've done yet is "Fire walking" - pretty powerful stuff. I have fun with life. My daughter lives in LA now, but I get her summers and adjusted my lifestyle so I don't have to work at those times. Worked the forest fire Clinton visited last year after my daughter left. Now am just thinking what I'll do when I grow up! 

Ken