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Hometown

I was born in Hilo Hawaii, on the Big Island.

Places I've been

I went to Kodiak High School in Kodiak Alaska. I have taken some honors courses at Tulsa Community College, and am proudly a homemaker. I have lived in Kodiak and Anchorage, Alaska; Tacoma, Seattle, and Mt. Lake Terrace, Washington; Siloam Springs, Arkansas, Ft. Benning (Columbus) and Athens, Georgia; Aransas Pass, (Corpus Christi) Texas; back and forth between Sand Springs and Tulsa, Oklahoma for the last 30 years.In the last seven years, we have traveled to and lived in San Diego, Bakersfield, and Corona, California, and Denver, Colorado for my husband's work. I was recently in a little desert town near the Salton Sea called Calipatria, Ca. for three months, traveling with my husband, and am now back home in Oklahoma as of 29 April. We spent about 4 months in California City, Ca. after that, and are now in Chula Vista, Ca. for a job in Otai Mesa, San Diego, Ca.(Nov. 8, 2008) I have been in 36 states, Mexico, Canada, and in the summer of 2006, made a trip to the UK. Going to Ireland was a dream come true, and I hope to go there again.

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I'm a happily married 59 year old lady, who loves life and its twists and turns. I live in the Tulsa area, but travel with my husband for months at a time for his work, sometimes for as long as a year or 18 months. Right now, Feb, 2009, we're in Chula Vista, and love the area. La Jolla here I come! It's great fun being a gypsy, and I love new adventures, places and people. I've never met a stranger, but being away from family and friends at times is hard. Those absences make the time we have together even more special and precious, and I drive or fly home for necessary Gramma fixes. I took my grandson back with me to Bakersfield for six weeks the summer he was nine,  and to Denver the summer of 2007 when he was thirteen. He's the only one brave enough to stay away from home for so long at this time, and we have grand adventures exploring near and far. He's one of the best things in my life. After his 16 year old sister's first long trip away from home to Tennesee for her Chorale Group the summer of 2009, maybe I will be able to get her farther from home now too. I'm ready for some one-on-one with my lovely granddaughter. She's singing at the county fair in Sept. 2009, and has a beautiful voice. Quite a change from the little girl that was as out of tune as her Gran.

In the second week of January 2008, I drove back to California to be with my husband at his job site near the Salton Sea. He is a Senior Field Engineer for a company that builds power and water treatment plants. The site was out in the desert, surrounded by prisons,  and there were cattle feedlots in the vicinity that raised a stench fit to melt ones face, if the wind was blowing in the wrong direction. After that, eating a hamburger is out of the question for me.

We lived in Calipatria, which we called Cowpat for obvious reasons, and only had a population of 2000 or so. Two lovely ladies ran the little library there, and they saved my life. The area is remote,  so when I returned to Oklahoma on 29 April, I had finished my 51st book. I feel like I should get a prize like my grandchildren do at school for reading so many books, but it is something I love to do anyway.

Sushi, my 3-year old Shih Tzu, travels with me in a tricked-out car seat that raises him high enough to look out the window, or curl up and sleep safely. He is a quirky wee beastie and truly diabolical. He keeps me laughing and gives lots of love back, so there's a good synergy there. His job is to handle the elk watch out in the boonies, and he has turned in a stellar performance, as we haven't  plowed into one of those  brick walls on hoofs yet.

January thru July of 2007, we lived in uptown Denver and loved the change of lifestyle, despite the blizzards. We made many friends, and really enjoyed  being able to walk everywhere in an upscale, vibrant, well-kept urban area full of wonderful young people. We could walk downtown, to the movies, the corner pub, good restaurants, and had all manner of entertainment from museums to street bands. One can't do that in Oklahoma.

I have lived all over the country, and in the summer of 2006 we went to England and Ireland. Stepping on the "auld sod" was like coming home. An elderly Irish gentleman in Cork asked me where my family was from, and I told him mainly from the midwest, but that I had been born in Hawaii and raised in Alaska. He said "no darlin, I mean where were your people from HERE?" I was totally foundered when he told me I had the color of blue eyes  found only in the Irish, and my hair  and complexion gave me away as well. What fun...I told him my people were from Lurgen, near Ulster in County Armaugh, in the north. He hugged me and said "Welcome home lass." That man was the personification of the friendliness of the people of Ireland, and a wonderful ambassador for his country. The Irish never forget how many of their families and friends migrated or died because of the famine and the troubles. I'll never forget him either. As you can see, I have another Irish trait, I like to talk, but I'm a very good listener as well. 

I have two sons and four grandchildren, and my husband has four children and two grands. Very simply, they are all my heart. I'm still learning from them.

I love spending time with my friends and family, and lately have really enjoyed locating old friends from my childhood and visiting with them online. Our friends are our greatest treasures, special and irreplaceable.

I'm back home in the Tulsa area and have retired from the road. We left Chula Vista, Ca the middle of August, 2009, and I'm retiring my gypsy ways and will travel by plane from now on, for a few weeks at a time, or Himself will fly home. It's time.

 

 

Favorite Movies

The Quiet Man, Tortilla Soup, Steel Magnolias, Sleeping With the Enemy, Dirty Dancing, Chocolate, The Secret of Roan Inish, Practical Magic, Anything by Tyler Perry, Medea is my hero!Now Voyager, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar , Bridge to the Sun, Pearl Harbor. so many more. The child in me still loves horror movies.

Favorite TV Shows

Waiting For God, The Vicar of Dibley, Keeping Up Appearances, As Time Goes By, Golden Girls, House, NCIS (Abbie Rocks!), Criminal Minds, and Goddess help me, even O'Reilly, all the forensic shows, Masterpiece Theater, Dexter, Shield, X-Files, Nip tuck, Rescue Me, Becker, Frasier, Will and Grace, Sons of Anarchy, Gray's Anatomy, Dexter, Army Wives.

Activities

Making jewelry, traveling, reading, walking Sushi, Ren Faires, being the lady who lunches, "fests' of all kinds, 'tiquin and junkin, exploring, discovering new favorite authors, time spent on junkets with the grandchildren, and any time spent with family and friends.

Favorite Charities

Call Rape in Tulsa, DVIS, Wounded Warriors, and those I help anonymously when they are in need, as long as every dime goes to them, not administration.

Favorite Music

70's music, the gentle soul music of the time, adult contemporary, Enya and Loreena Mckennitt, classical, the pipes and bodhran, Andean/Bolivian/ Peruvian with rain sticks and pan pipes, some opera, such as Pavarotti arias, Edith Piaf, verrrrry eclectic tastes in all things.

Favorite Books

Nora Roberts, P.C.Cast, Christine Feehan, Daphne Du Maurier, Kahlil Gibran, books magickal and mystical, Julie Garwood, Tolstoy, Tennyson, e.e.cummings, Rod Mckuen, Chaucer, Voltaire, Karen Slaughter, Catherine Coulter, Sharon Sala, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Dean Koontz, Jonathon and Faith Kellerman, John Sanford, Jane Austen, Dostoevsky, Ann Rice(and her Roquelaure pseudonym), Bertrice Small, Karen Hopper, historical bodice rippers, from trash to the classics, whatever I'm in the mood for. Sidney Poitier's The Measure of a Man, which I feel could be used as a primer in raising responsible adults.

Favorite Quotes

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. Chief Seattle

Favorite People

I am fortunate to have many special people in my life. They are unique individuals in their own right, defying stereotypes, categories and being rated.

Favorite Places

Hawaii, Oregon and Washington coast, Alaska, Denver, La Jolla, Camden, Maine, Newport Beach, Rhode Island, Corpus Cristi, Chicago, Boston, Flagstaff, and Ireland, parts of England.

Favorite Animals

My Shih Tzu Sushi, and his buds Ginger, Choco, Diego, and Jager. My son and his girlfriend have added two rescue puppies to their family, Catahoula/blond Labs named Hiro and Sally. Sushi isn't quite sure what to make of them yet, because he and Hiro are both alpha males, but at two months, Hiro is already twice as big as Such.......interesting times ahead with those three. Update, stardate 09, between Hiro and Sally there's definitely some "Marley" in there, they drag their dad and mom's, and Uncle Nick's, belongings out the doggie door and tear them to shreds in the back yard. This includes borrowed movies, shoes, couch pillows and anything else they can get through the opening.

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