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About Me

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu~I'm an island girl at heart, born and raised on St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands. It truly is paradise on Earth and my childhood was beyond compare. I love to get crafty and let my energy flow creating collages, laying out mosaic tile on my bathroom floor, taking artsy pictures of my kids, just gettin' crafty is a high for me... i love to cook and bake and plan parties... my family is amazing! i couldn't ask for more wonderful parents. we are best of friends, as well as family. my mom is indescribable... my dad is THE coolest guy on the planet... and my sister is my best friend... i love the hell out of gregorio... he balances me. life is better because of him. his laugh, his antics, his music, his eyes, his smile. and i always beat him in scrabble, ok... not always, but 9 times out of 10. and i hate losing. except that it pushes me to do better the next time. my children remind me why i am here, every day with them is a gift. they put things into perspective. period. i am a total perfectionist. i analyze everything, ridiculously. i love my friends. they have to be real otherwise i don't have the patience, or the time. save the drama... like i tell the kids, "you're wasting your energy!" life is too short for conflicts. live every day, love all your days. that's the virgo in me... save everyone, love them all. i am at my very core, a lover of life. simplistic? maybe, but i believe that you have to live while you're alive! i was raised to enjoy myself, to accept responsibility for my own happiness, to kiss life on the lips, then smile, fulfilled. live the life you love, and love the life you live..."When you are master of your body, word and mind, you shall rejoice in perfect serenity." ~Shabkar"Your body is a whole, all of its parts connected. Your body wants to be healthy. Every lifestyle choice you make has a profound impact on how you live, feel, age. Only a true understanding and appreciation of your body will enable you to live long and live well." ~Andrew WeilBreathe easy~ Think slowly~ Dream focused* myspace layouts for Get this layout for your myspace page.

My Interests

My main man, Chasing Mermaids, Boating, Bahamas, Backyard barbecues with friends, Bocce, Sunrises, CoLor PaRtieS, Clouds, Full mOOns, Playing Scrabble with Greg, Reading with Tristan and Macy, Cooking Naked, Finding Faeries, Catching Butterflies(only for a second), Yoga, Dancing, Crafty projects, Painting, Travel, Music, music everywhere! Making collages, eating brie, feeling that crusty saltiness that clings to your skin after a day at the beach, an afternoon nap, finding constellations, middle eastern food, curry, sushi, coconut, mango, tamarind, mojitos, margaritas, making homemade wine and beer, watching my children sleep, chocolate, cheese, fresh crusty bread, pickled green beans(only in New Orleans!), campfires, fireflies, the smell of freshly cut grass, playing in the rain,hide and go seek. i am never without my camera, i'll shoot you, me, architecture, nature, whatever, whenever. Oh yeah, i like football. and i like it best when my team is winning. i love parties, in my next life i'll be a party coordinator. it makes me happy to choose a theme and watch it come to life and be celebrated. i like drawstrings and the sound of velcro. waterfalls, quiet wooded areas and humming, which i mostly do when i am totally bored.

I'd like to meet:

Mermaids and travel the ocean... and these fly bitches!

Music:

Almost everything. If you feel it, move with it. Raised on reggae, soca, dancehall, anything islandy i love. All of the Naked Music artists. Thievery Corp., West Indian Girl, Yaz, Peter Gabriel, Nina Simone, Everything but the Girl, Lazy Dog, Morcheeba, The Januaries, Shannon, Trinere(we're goin' back) Kaskade, Lazy Dog, Ween, Hooverphonic, Lamb, Bob Marley, Byron Lee and the Dragoneers, Elvis, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Keane, Coldplay, Travis, Jamiroquai, Johnny Cash, The Greenskeepers, Esthero, Jessy Moss, The Clash, David Bowie, The Beastie Boys, Rin DMC, Papas Fritas, i like a lot of world music, sitar laden tracks from india, zydeco from the swamps, sultry greek rhythms, and latin hip shakin' tunes...i could go on and on but even if i listed every damn cd i own it would not begin to encompass the depth of my interests...every day brings something new. And if nothing is eternal music comes damn close... it unites centuries, breaks language barriers. ..
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Movies:

Lately we've been renting the classics... Casablanca, Ben-Hur, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestWhat the bleep do we know?, Layer Cake, Mind the Gap, Garden State, Blue Lagoon, Splash, Drop Dead Fred, Princess Bride, Labyrinth, Chocolat, Peter Pan, Finding Neverland, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind...

Television:

As little as possible...

Books:

Shantaram, The Celestine Prophecy, Many Lives, Many Masters, A Million Tiny Pieces, Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Mermaid Chair, The Secret Garden, Memoirs of a Geisha, DaVinci Code, Red Sky in Mourning, The Ugly Duckling, Wacky Wednesday...

Heroes:

Greg, my parents and my children, who make my time on this planet more joyful, pure and filled with love.

My Blog

tuesday tidbits

We have all thrown out phrases such as, "it's raining cats and dogs" or "spill the beans",  without much thought at one some point, but most of the colorful phases in our speech are rooted in his...
Posted by *authentic* on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:32:00 PST

missing...

on our way home from dinner with the kids last night Macy stopped to pick a small cluster of ixoras... "how many days are we gonna be gone?" she asked.  Twelve.  A few moments later she hand...
Posted by *authentic* on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:19:00 PST

surprises

i love surprises.  i love dreaming up a way to thrill someone that i care about with something that will excite or please them to no end...  so, greg and i discovered the new Stephen Marley ...
Posted by *authentic* on Thu, 24 May 2007 05:03:00 PST

glitter, gloat, gush...

Tristan had a steel drum performance that was awesome...thanks to Sera and her girls, N*cole & Steev, *G* & AnEpoch plus my parents for coming out to support him, it meant a lot to all of us.M...
Posted by *authentic* on Thu, 24 May 2007 05:45:00 PST

i knew this shit was comin'! Ben!

Tag Rules: Once you've been tagged you have to write a blog about yourself with "six weird habits/things about yourself."At the end you need to choose 6 people you want to tag and list their names.Don...
Posted by *authentic* on Fri, 18 May 2007 04:57:00 PST

ahhh, now for the good news...

Piece, Love & Happiness... Stress can destroy our most important relationships long before contributing to the causes of cancer and heart disease.  The Doctor's Chocolate, developed by Dr. Ke...
Posted by *authentic* on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:32:00 PST

Let's clear the air~

How bad is being around a smoker?  Enough to raise your risk for heart disease by as much as 40 percent!!!  Breathing secondhand smoke regularly is as damaging as smoking one cigarette per d...
Posted by *authentic* on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:18:00 PST

this and that

nothing too pressing or important to say... just the filler stuff.  spent the day cleaning, folding laundry, filling newly found jars with some prized sand, sifting through junk mail and trying t...
Posted by *authentic* on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:07:00 PST

a few things...

I'd like to take a minute to clarify a few things...For some of you this will garner a reply of, "duh." Others will think I very possibly may have lost my marbles, but it needs to be addressed... ...
Posted by *authentic* on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:30:00 PST

House parties rock!

Saturday night slideshow is up and running... you still had to be there... and sadly, out of respect, no mistress of mayhem pics...
Posted by *authentic* on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:14:00 PST