About

So far, only one of us has been to: Australia, Brazil, China, Guam, the Philippines, and Taiwan. But it isn’t the same one.

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Kathleen G. Charters and Lawrence I. Charters started life as children. Life then intervened.

Kathleen served as an officer in the United States Public Health Service, working at the USPHS hospital in San Francisco, California. She then transferred to the United States Navy, and served at the U.S. Naval Hospital Bremerton, Washington, the Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan, the Naval Medical Center San Diego, California, and the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, since renamed the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. She was a professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing after retiring from the Navy. She then worked as a consultant for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and then as a senior civil servant in the Department of Defense. After retiring from the Department of Defense, she researched the link between spirituality and physical and mental health for the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine. She retired to Sequim, Washington in 2018. She died after a two year battle with cancer in January 2025.

Lawrence Charters worked for Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, Washington; the Department of History, Washington State University, teaching history; Olympic College, Bremerton, Washington, teaching computer science; Chapman College (now Chapman University), teaching history, English literature, philosophy, and computer science; and Central Texas College, teaching computer science. He also managed a bookstore, a software store, and edited a newspaper and a couple of magazines. He spent most of his career working for National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as an Internet Projects Manager. He presently works as a placement specialist for Pacific Northwest puffins, finding them appropriate jobs in government and industry.