Linda Diebert, spent the first years of her career teaching young children here in Bellingham. She changed careers and became Transit Planner, Principal and Co-owner, TransitPlus, LLC, Boulder, Colorado; Former Executive Director of Via Transit, Boulder, CO. She is a trained, long-time Pranic Energy Healer. In retirement, she is an avid reader, volunteers at Hospice House, tends her large veggie and flower gardens and makes quilts and dotes on her three grandsons.