MageB ⋅ 83
Journaling since 1974. I'm an artist, book lady, and quilter living at the beach with a car guy. We wait out the pandemic in our little condo above the beach. Having been homeless in the 70's, the car guy and I truly appreciate where we are today. All entries are copyrighted under the author's legal name under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported. © Copyright 1974-2021.
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THE SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT in Postcards 4
The Summer of Our Discontent. Grey skies again, and just for the moment I rejoice. I was off to a women’s meeting in real clothing. I told them that I was leaving for the winter. ...
AH COMFORT in Postcards 4
Ah, comfort. We went round and round in circles yesterday. First, an estate sale filled with marvelous fabrics of every era…quilts, south American weavings, and more. If I had been a ...
ADJUSTING in Postcards 4
I remembered to wear pink every day this month. It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Just because I don’t volunteer for the ACS any more doesn’t mean my passion to find a cure has lessened. ...
HACKED in Postcards 4
Portland Union Station. Dear Friends: Hacked. One of my longtime blogger and Facebook friends said she got a friend request from me yesterday. Since I had no reason to do that, I wen...
SUNSHINE AND SPRINKLES in Postcards 4
2017: View of a California back road in the sunshine from the Northbound train. • I’m getting an awful lot of delayed stuff accomplished. It feels good. • Margot just called. Her Ort...
MORE STAIRS in Postcards 4
Back stairs art. Photo of it all if I have to take it down again. It’s amazing that we only had to hammer one nail into the walls for new images. Oh, most of the work came down durin...
LEFT KNEE in Postcards 4
2006: Left knee at Disneyland. We were off to see the Orthopedic doc at either. Instead of like the guy at Kaiser, who gave us only one option, Dr. Shultz gave us a three pronged app...
A NEW OCTOBER in Postcards 4
1982: At my one person show at Mile’s gallery. Pen and ink drawings and my journals. The gallery director ran off with all the money. Photo: CA. One of the things I am going to this...
LESS BOOKS in Postcards 4
A reading corner by a window. Dear George was really cranky when I delved into the vastly over-stuffed cubbyhole desk yesterday morning. All those mountains of paid bills, years of ...
TUCKS AND DARTS in Postcards 4
1984 with daughter Laka. A sunny November morning on the cottage steps. Into Action: • George is touching up the white next to the back steps. He added one more layer of bright col...
BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS !! in Postcards 4
Our shop, the American Cancer Society Discovery Shop here, is getting painted. It’s going from dramatic browns and gold accent walls to grey on grey. If you think painting a home is difficult...
THE GREAT OB FLOOD OF 1983 in Postcards 4
DAY 1: Hungover and leaning up against one of Timothy M’s old cars that I gave to Margot. I drank a lot the night before. There I was lying in bed near the bedroom window the next morning. ...
SAILING WITH THE STAR in Postcards 4
1976: Bob and Mother on the bridge of the Meg-a-Bob on the Star’s first trip to sea in forever. 1984: Margot and mother aboard the Meg-a-Bob heading out with the Star again. N...
CONTRAST AND CONTENT in Postcards 4
With spatter. Photo: G. I was just thinking that I bet the carpeted stairs on the first floor were as poorly constructed as the back stairs. The stairs and floors have been G’s focus f...
VALUE AND SATURATION in Postcards 4
2018: M and G at Boat House. Another Birthday Dinner. • You would never know that he goes to the gym every day, and I am down one size. • A free roast beef dinner at the boat hou...
WIND IN MY HAIR in Postcards 4
Heading home from Jo’s on a cold winters night. In the 60’s, I worked late as a general factotum at the Farman’s Ocean Beach house, and I didn’t have a good top on my car. It was a lo...
GOING FAST in Postcards 4
1972: Mage and Margot visiting my mother at Le Rondelet, Shelter Island. • This month is whizzing by. Fast. • I’m plugged into the Million Veteran Project tracking genetics. • Ge...
REMEMBERING in Postcards 4
Yes, I remembered my glasses I even remembered to dust them before I put them on so my eyes don’t tear all over my face from my allergies. I remembered my pads so I don’t leak in public when ...
THE BIG CLOSET PROJECT in Postcards 4
The big closet on the right. It was a weekend of closet construction. Saturday after G’s stint at the museum, we went off to IKEA to see what we could see in the way of shelving for my clo...
THE BEST in Postcards 4
1999 on a visit to the Queen Mary in Long Beach. I was only married to Paul Adams Hawkins for a small ten years. A short tumultuous time, two children, two jobs, homes with white sofas, lo...
BALANCE in Postcards 4
1969: Photo CD. My focus these days is getting life back in balance after the driver’s license worry. I’ve set my days up…a calendar of things I need to do. I need not complain about any...
LAUNDRY MEMORIES in Postcards 4
1966: The flower child. Photo: Charlie Davis. I’m so glad you all are enjoying my old photographs. Some are crooked, some are blurred, and others are so far away in memory they don’t ex...
RETURNING YOU TO OUR REGULAR PROGRAMMING in Postcards 4
2009 aboard the Ryndam which is now the Pacific Aria for P&O in Australia. …without a worry, I may add. • I discovered the little post it program, and now I have JPG post it’s march...
PASSED in Postcards 4
2018, at the Mingei. I write these words for myself so I will remember later. I passed my driver’s license tests…both on the second try this 9/11 birthday. I am very grateful to both DMV e...
TOMORROW 1 in Postcards 4
1965: Dixie and Mage at Dixies wedding with the wedding party. Reviewing Minors and their requirements, fines, signs, and Alcohol and Drug driving information in the CA DMV book. Test t...
