2009 February

I’m not sure what caused such madness. Maybe it was the full moon, or perhaps it was the rendezvous between Jupiter and Venus in the heavens…
Whatever the case, Michael and I suddenly decided to get married during the hectic Holiday Season.
We’d keep it simple, though. A small ceremony in Eureka, California. A [...]

 My first outing  with Michael was a date extraordinaire.  I’ve never had one like it…..
 
We met at Trinidad Beach…a long stretch of cliffs and caverns.  Crashing surf.    I gazed about me, transfixed.  It was so glorious…so heaven-on-earth…The most romantic spot I’d ever seen…
 
Better yet—-I was with the most romantic man on earth.
 
Michael O’Neal was everything a [...]

Smoke billowed from the mountains as I drove down 299 on my way out of California. It looked like Hell on earth.
      Wildfire season was here, but I was escaping the smoky inferno by heading East to the Midwest. I needed to do some regrouping, as well.
      I’d been living in California for two months—-trying [...]

Northern California is a lovely place—no doubt about it…Towering Redwoods…an incredible coastline…historical towns. There’s really no place like it on earth. Most of the natives are friendly—even overly-helpful.
But some of the folks? Oh my! They are really wacky.
It’s a true culture-clash, here in NorCal. Folks with purple hair, nose-rings, tongue-studs, dred-locks and full-body tattoos versus [...]

Last month, I loaded up my little Saturn and headed west all alone — like some kind of pioneer woman. Well, I wasn’t exactly alone.
I had the Angel of the Lord with me, and three stuffed monkeys.
I’m not sure where my Guardian Angel rode during that long trip, but the monkeys sat in the [...]