Funny the World... |
CAST OF CHARACTERS These are the folks who show up most often in this journal. Others who pop in from time to time will be identified as they make their appearance. FAMILY Walt - longsuffering husband since 1965. I’m not sure why he puts up with me, but he does. He once made a web page in a class, but never went back to do anything with it again. Jeri - born 1966, living in Boston. She graduated from Berklee College of Music and now teaches composing and arranging at the college, gives private music lessons, and plays clarinet, saxophone and flute in pit bands for various theatrical productions in and around Boston..She also has a couple of degrees in theatre design and in her spare time does lighting design for small theatres in Boston. Ned - born 1967, the producer on The Arrow (KXOA) radio station in Sacramento. He and his wife live in Sacramento with their pug, BooBoo. Marta - Ned’s wife, a certified massage
therapist with her own business, Jakarta Bodyworks. Call Paul - died at age 30 in 1999 Audra - Paul’s widow, who is a veterinarian working in Southern California. She recently re-married. Thomas/Tom - born 1970, lives in Santa Barbara and works for an international computer sotware development company. He works with large corporate clients to implement their newly purchased software systems. Laurel - Tom's wife, who is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager for Santa Barbara Bank and Trust and Associate Director of Risk Management for Pacific Capital Bancorp (the lone female under 50!) David - died at age 24 in 1996 Peach & Bob - My cousin (whose given name is Carolyn), and her husband. Norm and Olivia (generally come as a set) - Walt’s brother and his wife. Alice Nan - Walt’s sister Joe - Alice Nan's husband Alice - Walt’s mother FRIENDS WHO APPEAR MOST OFTEN IN THIS JOURNAL: Peggy - My dearest friend, who lives in Australia. She gave me my first digital camera and got me started with PhotoShop, for which I will be forever grateful. We met in real life, after a year of a pen pal relationshp when she spent a 6 week vacation with us in 2000, during which time we became very close face to face friends, as well as on-line friends. I visited her in 2003, which was the trip of a lifetime for me. Steve - Singer/songwriter Steve Schalchlin, one of the "grand old men of on-line journaling," whom I’m proud to call my friend. I also sometimes work as his volunteer publicist, and his own personal conscience. (He is my friend, my confident and my conscience.) I wrote a song, "Us Catholics," for his show The Big Voice, which got cut from the show before it moved to New York. Olivia - My good friend and former biking buddy, an attorney living in Boise, Idaho. Joan - a friend who lives a block away from me, but whom I almost never see. She and I have been playing on-line Scrabble for about two years now. Shelly and Ellen - good friends, a lesbian couple who have been activists for gay rights forever. Ashley - my contact at the SPCA, the canine coordinator who keeps filling my house with dogs. Marie - our Mexican daughter who owns a couple of restaurants in the Sacramento area--Todo un Poco in Elk Grove. David - Sometimes confused with son David, but this one is sci fi author, David Gerrold, also a friend with whom I share a love of chocolate. Gilbert - Once my best friend, the longtime Musical Director for The Lamplighters, who died in 1986 FOUR LEGGED FRIENDS Sheila and Lizzie - our current dogs |
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