My Life Line

There have been many traumatic, and some wonderful events, in my life that I have not listed on my visual lifeline. I am choosing just to pick out the most significant for two reasons: I want to focus on the positive, and there is just simply not enough time. I have also left off, from the visual, my drug addicted years from age 13 to 26. There are several reasons for that which doesn’t really require explanation.

• 9 years old:
The death of my father was life altering, I had a very hard time accepting his death and conjured up the belief that he didn’t really die, he had just left me because I was bad. This thinking lead to a multitude of bad choices in the next 28 years of my life. I have finally come to accept that it was not by choice that he left my life, leading to the repair and restoration of that 9-year-old little girl.
• 16 years old:
I found out I was pregnant when I was 5 and 1/2 months along. There were several contributing factors to this phenomenon. Against the wishes of most everyone in my world I kept my son and have never abandoned him or my responsibility for him since. Having a child at 16 wasn’t really so bad, it was having a 5 year old at 21 that was difficult or a 15 year old at 31 that was harsh. He has grown into a wonderful man attending college for Video Game Production and working part-time to help support himself and our household.
• 18 years old
I was married to a “Rock Star”, that I had met in San Francisco while on vacation. The marriage lasted for 7 years and produced my two beautiful Daughters: Jessica and Samantha. The marriage ended when I stood up and would no longer allow the abuses to continue. We were divorced in 1993.
• 26 years old
Then I married a “jock” who I found out was a drug addict 2 weeks before our marriage yet continued with the wedding anyway thinking I would never find anyone else willing to take my three children and I. We ran from one state and one problem to another for the next 8 years. We were divorced in July 2002 when I returned home to my native southern California.
• 36 years old
I was in an accident on July 4th last year with my sister. I got 3 herniated discs, a torn meniscus in my right knee and lost my job. I have been on disability and welfare ever since. This is the first year since I was 16 that I have not worked full time in one capacity or another. This event has been life altering as well, forcing me to sit with myself and discover the woman in the mirror.
• I used my “down time” to discover every resource available to me to get my life back on track and truly build an independent, success filled life for myself. I have grown exponentially each day, as I continue on this path of self-discovery and improvement. I have never felt so “capable” and independent in my 37 years. This is truly a life-altering journey for me.





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• 40 years old
The next milestone in my life is in two years when my youngest child turns 18, I turn 40, and I graduate from Palomar with an AA in either art or anthropology. I am planning on traveling the North and South American Continents in my 1967 Volkswagen camper bus or similarly small mobile home.
• I am going to transfer to UC Berkeley to continue my education and get a BA in Anthropology/Art. I will travel with the Renaissance fairs during my off time to sell my art and build my fan base.
• 42 years old
I will graduate from Berkeley in 2009 and begin my world travels. I intend to get my PhD from University of Hawaii in Cultural Anthropology.
• There are some places I intend to visit, but mostly I will just travel impulsively between my destinations. Some of my intended destinations are
o Visiting all the amusement parks in the world; I am a rollercoaster fanatic.
o I want to study the Mayan Culture and other South American peoples to discover why we know so little about their way of life and their history.
o I would like to spend some time in the desert in Sedona Arizona, as well as New Mexico, I have been drawn to these places ever since I took a train trip across the country when I was 17.
o Since I am also a fanatical Fairy Lover I would love to visit all the fairytale castles in Europe.