My 10th tattoo by S I V A second trip to Sedona ...

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#6 This is a memorial tattoo. It's really a piece of crap. I don't remember the name of the young man who did it. I was really "cheating" on Omar. My bad. But he later fixed it. ...

Repost from turtle_doveMonday, December 20, 2004Well, it was 1990 when I went to graduate school (at the age of 24) to start getting my Master's in Social Work. I interned the first year at a Teen Pregnancy program, to learn some of the basics of casemanagement. And the second year, I interned at an...

my beautiful Radha, by Omar Edmison, All American Tattoo when it was fre...

When I turned 40, I had people over to play pictionary. ...

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#4 back piece, hand drawn and tattooed for me by Omar Edmison This is one of my faves, me in the acorn, two larger leaves are mother and father, spinners are half-sibs, ankh is symbol my mom used to wear on a necklace and spiral is a symbol dad had on his shoulder...

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#3 One of the best photos ever, taken by a friend for a journalism class. Right sleeve, "Green Tara," by Jennifer Billig. ...

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While I have some pictures of my 40th birthday here, I have no record of my 30th. (At right is me at 33*). What I can remember about it, and why I wanted to include a mention of it, is it was a big deal to me. I am sort of sentimental about numbers, the birthdays with zeros and fives on the end. At...

Saturday, January 13, 2007My Vision Board...

christianity 2.0 New Year's of 2006/7, an AA friend of mine named Jill and I went to the Coast for an AA convention. After that I started a love/hate relationship with a certain Christian church called The Vineyard. The development of my spirituality has been heavily influenced by the experience at...

Buddhism Well, it wasn't until after my divorce (at age 32?) that I became Buddhist. It was a lot of nice, distant concepts when I was married to my husband. It wasn't until I sort of had a new round in recovery and needed yet again to find some kind of spirituality to call my own that I saught out...

What I believe and where it came from.... As I was leaving college, I had absolutely no spirituality (that I can recall now). I was raised an atheist, with only the free-love spirituality of hippies. (Actually my mother had some influence of Buddhism even back then). The only church I'd ever attended...

My final visit to see my Father (Age 30): By the time I was 30, my father had been diagnosed with throat cancer and suffered with it for several years. I ended up making the trip to see him because I was contacted by his half-sister, my only aunt, Miriam Tinguely, who was living in Seattle at the time....

The Catbird Seat Bookstore First Practicum 90-91: Insights Teen Parent Program Gosh, I was so young, but those mommies were younger! Second Practicum 91-92: Parry Center for Children Talk about OJT! First Real Job: Center for Community Mental Health 92-94 - Northeast Portland, lots of great kids,...

Portland State University, 1990-1992, Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) Anyone who has gone to graduate school knows that it sucks. It was so very stressful. I was trying to work 32 hours while going to school the first year. By the end of the second year, I was only able to work 8 hours a...

Catbird Seat: The bookstore years 1987-1990 My first real job was working as a teacher's assistant at a Montessori preschool, but..... I hated it. So I didn't last long.  I don't think I hated Montessori, it was the teacher I was assisting; we didn't get along.  Also I was...

Brian: 1990-1997 Brian became the bookkeeper at The Catbird Seat the last year I worked there. Our desks faced each other. He was awesome. It was as if we were the same person in (very) different bodies. At the time, I honestly thought he was gay and vice versa. Eventually, when I started to go to...

#2 Left sleeve, by half brother, Filip Leu, 1990 This is me after I got my first sleeve tattoo, so it's 1990. I was 24. I got those shoes in Switzerland. I loved them. I'd still have them if a roommate hadn't thrown them out when I moved one time. This particular visit was terribly painful...

My Third Visit to Switzerland (Age 24): My brother paid for my third visit to Switzerland because the whole family was attending a tattoo convention in Amsterdam. I guess it was like a family reunion. Here is the only picture of me with my father. It is also the last picture of me without the tattoo...

Sometime after this visit, my brother and sister came to visit me at college in Oregon. At that time, Filip gave me my first tattoo, which is on my right shin, now 20 25 years old... I can't believe it. Look at the difference in my appearance in less than 2 years. I got rid of that...

Second Visit to see My Father (Age 19): When I was a sophomore in college, I spent winter break in Switzerland with my father and his family. It was a 5 week visit, the longest I ever made. I only visited him 4 times in my life. I am going to post about those visits, out of sequence, because they...

Second Visit to see My Father (Age 19): When I was a sophomore in college, I spent winter break in Switzerland with my father and his family. It was a 5 week visit, the longest I ever made. I only visited him 4 times in my life. I am going to post about those visits, out of sequence, because they are...

Undergrad: Reed College, 1983-1987, BA Psychology I went to school at a small, private college in Portland, Oregon. I went there because my mother went there, and her parents went there. That is where they met and married. It's an amazing school. It tends to attract misfits and loaners and brainiacs,...