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WELCOME TO: GEMINI RISING   UPDATED INTRO 30 JUNE 2025: Just a little about me. I've been married for 33 years this past NOV and currently live in Southern California, but I grew up in New Hampshire. I've got 2 boys who are young adults. I work as a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. I enjoy my job a lot. Still. If you can believe that. I love to write. Thankfully both of my boys achieved Eagle Scout. My Scouting days are over and I'm back to focusing on my writing. I like to get out in nature, drink coffee and watch football. Here's a little bio about my zodiac. GEMINI: Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. BLOG ACCOMPLISHMENTS: SEPTEMBER 2025:
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Welp, Maid of the Mist Most Macabre  wanted to drive the Party Bus right up the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes, but thankfully Witchy Woman explained that the bus tires would get stuck in the sand. After some gentle persuasion, she parked in the parking lot and we were off to climb the sand dunes. Let me tell you, these dunes seemed to go forever. We were all huffing and puffing as we reached the top, but we stopped quite often to drink water and catch our breath. The view was reward! Lake Michigan was gorgeous! The water was incredibly blue. Krista  took pictures for her Instagram. WakeUpAndLive~NOV Word Monger bought postcards from the visitor’s center. Šuŋgmánitu Tȟáŋka  wanted to go fishing so he took AmyJo-Where did 2025 go???  to go fish. We all decided to go back and set up camp. Honestly, there wasn’t much to set up. We were glamping! Luxury camping! Kinda nice after staying in a Boy Scout camp. Witchy Woman went down to the camp store with Jellyfish to buy stuff for smores and I fired up the camp stove. Šuŋgmánitu Tȟáŋka returned with 2 fish and I cooked it. As the sun set, we all sat around the campfire and made smores. WakeUpAndLive~NOV Word Monger , Šuŋgmánitu Tȟáŋka AmyJo-Where did 2025 go??? and Maid of the Mist Most Macabre were exhausted and passed out cold in their fancy tents. A little bit later I went down to the lake shore with Witchy Woman Princess Megan Snow Rose  , Krista , Jellyfish and just hung out, listened to the sound of the waves, skipped a rock or two and just enjoyed the company. There’s more to Michigan than just Detroit! |
| Ah, Massachusetts! The Spirt of America! I’ve been there many times when I was growing up and even going back to show my own family. There’s so much to see and do! And the Party Bus had a day to pack it in! Let me tell you, Maid of the Mist Most Macabre fit right in driving the Party Bus like a crazy Boston driver through all the rotaries. We started the day out with pastries from Mike’s pastries. Nothing like a sugar bomb packed cannoli to get the day started. Me, Krista ,AmyJo-Where did 2025 go??? ,and Princess Megan Snow Rose indulged and were wired for hours. Then we walked the Freedom Trail. There are many historical sites dating back to Revolutionary times. WakeUpAndLive~NOV Word Monger and Šuŋgmánitu Tȟáŋka spent their time lingering on the USS Constitution. We walked past Faneuil Hall, a meeting place during the revolution, but now it’s a shopping place with several restaurants. We passed Paul Revere’s house which has retained it’s classic colonial façade. WakeUpAndLive~NOV Word Monger takes more pictures than Krista does! The Red Sox game starts at 4 tonight. Fenway Park is the oldest baseball park in major league baseball. My first time there, I was in middle school and I won an opportunity to tour the park through one of the giveaways at the local Stop and Shop stores. It has changed since then – gotten a heavy facelift, and yet still retains its iconic structure. There’s Pesky’s pole, and the Green Monster where seats are $50.00 each to sit in, though you have to bid for them in a lottery. Fenway was built in the outskirts of Boston at the time, in a swampy like area, but since, the city of Boston has grown around it. Maid of the Mist Most Macabre gets some peanuts for the game. Everyone gets a Fenway Frank except Jellyfish . Our heroes, the Red Sox, are dialed in. Come the 8th inning, the whole stadium pauses to sing “Sweet Caroline.” A lump forms in my throat as I appreciate the opportunity to watch the game surrounded by friends. The Red Sox are MY FAVORITE baseball team, even here in LA, they are #1 to me. Here's a story I wrote inspired by their 2004 World Series win:
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