Author's details
Name: Tamara Thomas
Date registered: January 12, 2011
URL: http://www.wherethereislife.com
Yahoo! IM: thinksfunny
Biography
Born in Sun Valley, Idaho, Tamara Thomas moved to Arizona in 1980. She has lived and worked in the Wickenburg area for the last 11 years, and has spent the last eight years working at the Wickenburg Sun newspaper. Tamara was educated at Reed College, Vanderbilt University and the University of Arizona. As well as being editor at The Sun, she is a professional artist with local murals on display in downtown Wickenburg and in many private homes and businesses throughout the west, as well as canvases that she shows and sells both locally and nationally. Upon the loss of her only child in 2008, she underwent profound personal changes. Some of those changes produced a few good things: She helped found the $3,000 Abigail Garcia memorial scholarship for local graduating high school seniors; she founded a local mentoring group for at-risk high school students; she adopted a grade-school student from foster care – her second beloved daughter Tina; and she started a blog about grief, organ donation, adoption and related interwoven topics with the desire to benefit others experiencing similar changes. Tamara can be reached through The Wickenburg Sun; by mail at PO Box 86, Wickenburg AZ 85358; through her website www.WhereThereIsLife.com, or via email at tam@wherethereislife.com.
Latest posts
- Five years ago today — May 21, 2013
- Donate blood, donate life — March 8, 2013
- Dancing again – my path to (almost) happy — March 8, 2013
- Turning a page within the same book — October 12, 2012
- School begins; I watch my children grow — August 8, 2012
Most commented posts
- Grief Journal No. 1 (6/1/08) — 16 comments
- Get over grief, have a ‘replacement child’! I don’t think so…. — 8 comments
- Carl Zimmer, science, philosophy, a tattoo, and love — 5 comments
- Teaching teens to drive – a struggle on many levels — 4 comments
- Donate Life! More on my deceased daughter and organ donation — 4 comments
