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In adult past: Stage acting. Education. Employment arresting shoplifters. Business owner Machine Shop, Web Design, Forms Analysis. Incest Survivor activist creating 12 step meetings, self-help rage & grief workshops, live performance. Traveling. Volunteer Newborn Photographer UCLA Harbor Hospital, Team Mom International Champion High School Robotics Team. We raised 3 teens in the robotics program. They were captains, drivers, programmers. Oil Disaster Bird Washer, Burning Man 2007/2008 I did Performance Art, Cat Rescue & Foster, Certified Therapy Cat/Stage Actor. Library Volunteer Traveling Storytime as Auntie Red reading to local preschool.
Currently: Cancer Survivor. Social Media Expert. I am manager and curator for Silicon Valley Resistance Twitter account. Democratic activist. I am an expert on Instacart from both sides as user and as a rated 5 star shopper for Instacart.
We are a diverse family with bio kids, stepkids, foster grandkids, adopted grandkids. Vietnamese, African American/Native American, Latino, Armenian and Vietnamese.
CA becomes 1st state to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement.
"The model curriculum focuses on four historically marginalized groups that are central to college-level ethnic studies: African Americans, Chicanos and other Latinos, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Native Americans. It also includes lesson plans on Jews, Arab Americans, Sikh Americans and Armenian Americans who are not traditionally part of an ethnic studies curriculum. Those groups were added after objecting to an earlier draft that left them out." 2021
Paranormal happens to me. I don't seek it out. I have sought out information and the language to explain and understand what happens to me because I learned my 13yo at the time grandson was suffering from paranormal secretly, only his mother knew. I helped teach him a few simple tools like owning your space and telling the ghosts to leave him alone. In honor of my grandson's struggles I struggle to be candid about my own experiences. I believe 1 bio daughter and this grandson share my connection to the paranormal. I have seen 3 ghosts. 2 of them were of 2 different neighbors after they'd recently died. Terrified me. I've experienced telepathy "a lifeline coming to a convergence" on a handful of occasions.
2 of the telepathy experiences I've had are classmate related.
When I was in high school living in southern CA visiting San Francisco with my family walking down an uncrowded sidewalk, walking towards me was my best friend Michelle Colella.
02/04/02
I ordered from happyballs.com, and thru a mixup they had to give me a credit 11/27 that never showed up on my account. So Jeremy from happy balls and I have been patiently working together by email to figure out the problem, and help him feel confident that I indeed didn't get the credit.
We had to do a 3way phone call today with my bank. While on hold for some time, he and I got to talking. His company used to be in Pasadena. His mom went to LCHS. I asked how old she was. Turned out she was about 4 years ahead of me. I let him know about our reunion webpage. I then emailed him the url. He then figured out that his mom's brother might have been in my grade. >I emailed him, OMG, your mom's brother is commemorated on our page. Cheryl Moore '71
02/04/02 From Jeremy, "I think my Mom's brother was in the same grade as you at the time he died.
His name was Barry Constable and he died in '69 while still in school."
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I have had a handful of experiences with out of body. I don't seek it. I dread it when I can feel it beginning to happen. My right ear buzzes ominiously, then my spirit leaves my body. One time was classmate related.
Terry Fenn told me Mike Collins, who I'd dated, had died. A year before he had contacted me and wanted to meet. I declined. I can feel extremely painfully shy. I'd never felt at home with Mike.
I felt the out of body experience begin, and finally soared again to the beautiful earthly surroundings where the sky is so blue. I'm flying through the sky, look down, and happily swoop down to touch a very green single blade of grass among the field. I continued until I saw what appeared to be Native American clay homes, and I landed. From behind one of the walls, Mike emerged. Telepathically he offered to be of support to me here on earth. Telepathically I let him know I felt too shy with him to confide in him.
"Those" kinds of dreams or experiences are "those" kind to me because they feel so real, and are never forgotten.
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My first love. I never stopped deeply loving him. I was in 6th grade. I was completely spontaneous and happy, truely myself My magical never forgotten summer with the only boy who made it into my diary. 7th grade neighbor Dennis Riley. Neighbors playing tag, throw the girl over your shoulder, and put the princess in the tower. He was gentle, inclusive, showed leadership, treated everyone with respect. Early in our relationship I was shocked and fascinated that there was a good male like him. His family was evicted for having a car engine on their living room floor. We didn't get to say goodbye. I was ghosted. I heard they moved to Fresno. The memory of his face helped me face hard times and move forward. He made a huge difference in my life.
All these years I worried I couldn't find him online. I worried he'd died in Vietnam. I worried he hadn't gotten to live. A few years ago I found and pieced together a small clue. I found him. I did not contact him. I was so relieved he hadn't died. He'd married, divorced, had a child, was an auto mechanic. He's not on any social media.
He's my Jack from Titanic. Remember she went on to live a full life and after death was reunited with Jack.
6th grade summer. Dennis Riley. My only utterly happy time growing up.
