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Check out our 2007 Holiday Road Trip Adventure! It all began on Christmas Eve when we followed Santa and Mrs. Claus across the Golden Gate Bridge (in a red Jaguar convertible) ..

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Writing stories, fiction, creative nonfiction, reading all different kinds of stuff, fiction, chick lit, YA fiction (oh yeah, I like to write stories for kids and young adults as well), play guitar and sing folk music and Beatles stuff, go on spontaneous adventures every time I get the chance. Hang out at the beach as much as possible, go to cool rock concerts whenever possible. Live life to its fullest. Listen to the Beatles all the time!

I'd like to meet:


...cool people who are non-judgmental -- people who like the Beatles and classic rock music, and like-minded writers like me!

Music:

JERM ON HIS 22ND B-DAY PLAYING HIS NEW BONGOS... .. width="425" height="350" ..CLASSIC ROCK! The Beatles are still the best in my book --John, Paul, Ringo and George. also, Rolling Stones, the WHO (saw them in concert last year and wow, they're still awesome!), the Doors, Deep Purple, the Eagles, Steve Miller Band, Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC (not quite as old rock, but they're cool), Bad Company, etc. and etc...

Movies:

I like loads of movies -- recent movies I like include: In Pursuit of Happyness; Little Miss Sunshine (my favorite movie of last year!); older movies such as Big Fish and Second Hand Lions and Holes and Finding Neverland. I'm way behind the times in the movie department. I still like to watch older movies.

Television:

I watch very little TV, except my daughter and I watch "Degrassi, the New Generation" together and now the "N" is even showing some of the old shows from the '80s as well. Didn't even keep up with American Idol this year because of my ongoing writing class.

Books:

"Blackbird" by Jennifer Lauck (memoir), "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (fiction), "Lennon Revealed," by Larry Kane (Beatles info), "Magical Mystery Tours" by Tony Bramwell (Beatles info), "The Bitch Posse" by Martha O'Connor (fiction), "Time Off for Good Behavior" by Lani Diane Rich (chick lit), "If We Must Die" by Pat Carr (YA) and the list goes on and on...

Heroes:

My Mom, my kids, the Beatles, John, Paul, Ringo and George...anyone who goes for it and follows their dreams.

My Blog

Dads Birthday Surprise!

Happy Birthday Dad! Today, Megan and I drove 170 miles to Placerville, east of Sacramento to see my Dad for his 75th birthday.  I had told Dad just me and Megan were coming, but all of my other k...
Posted by Melody on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:42:00 PST

The Lunar Eclipse!

Tonight I saw at least part of the lunar eclipse.  At the end of yet another busy day at work, I walked past some offices, and one of the attorneys had a perfect view of the shadow that had just...
Posted by Melody on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:01:00 PST

Happy V-Day and Metamorphoses...

Okay, so today is Valentine's Day.  I have to confess that I didn't do anything this year.  I didn't send out any cards or make any cards, didn't even buy those cute little Valentine cards f...
Posted by Melody on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:23:00 PST

Across the Universe Takes Off!

  I watched it happen a few moments ago on "NASA TV."  I watched them blast the Beatles' Across the Universe into outer space.  It was very exciting and they played the song as history...
Posted by Melody on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:55:00 PST

Happy Rockin New Year!

Happy new year!  2008 arrived -- Beatles style! Megan and I returned from our road trip the night before new year's eve.  I actually went into work on new year's eve, which seemed strange af...
Posted by Melody on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:59:00 PST

the Holiday Raod Trip Adventure!

The adventure began as we followed Santa and Mrs. Claus across the Golden Gate Bridge -- they were in a Jaguar convertible...   Our "mini" Christmas tree -- with John Lennon presiding...  ...
Posted by Melody on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:35:00 PST

finally -- the "Christmas" spirit hits!

Here's "The Letter," the one I send out every year.  check it out!It took a while this year.  Life has been hectic -- busy projects at work, getting Megan through her first semester of high ...
Posted by Melody on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:22:00 PST

Thanksgiving = Giving Thanks for my "Goofy" Family

Thanksgiving at Stevie and Liezl's Place with my family Stevie, Me, Melissa, Jeremy, Megan and Floyd-the-Dog Stevie, Megan, Liezl, Melissa, Jerm & Floyd the Dog Yesterday it rained leaves, and V...
Posted by Melody on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:13:00 PST

The Beatles Save the Day Again and Life!

(WARNING:  Long and rambling adventure!) It was just another day at work, piles of paper surrounding me, Elena, one of the legal secretaries, sitting next to me while I formatted pleadings and fi...
Posted by Melody on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:16:00 PST

My Trip to New York

I had a wonderful time at the "Big Apple" Writer's conference which took place on ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Park Ave. in the Scandanavia House. ...
Posted by Melody on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:39:00 PST