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Louisa

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About Me


Isn't everything? There was a time when I defined myself by denigrating anything I thought I wasn't. But addictions led to my total defeat and eventually to AA, which has led me to spirituality, which in turn leads to life, I'm finding. Been making friends with life these last few years. We're getting to be pals, and it feels gentler to me as a result. People tell me I'm so "nice," and I say, why the fuck not be?
I'm almost 48, but I don't feel like it, so I just don't go there. I'm currently at work on nailing a gymnastics walk-over, and I'm grateful for everything. Since having my marriage crash and burn at 44, I've broken out of a 10-year cocoon to find a job I love, join a sober mountaineering group that's taught me the basics and let me summit Mt. Rainier twice, teach exercise classes, dapple in rock climbing, show up as a LESS co-dependent girlfriend in my relationship -- and most of all, reach out to a new circle of friends who love me faults and all and keep me in the light.
Myspace may be the ultimate silliness of ego, but it's fun! If I inspire any women to get younger through play, that's a good thing...
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A lot of people who know me now don't remember me as a lesbian, which I was from age 27 - 43. See? I looked different then (my ex-partner in the background).

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Really they mean "whom I'd like to meet." (sorry!)
I like to hear from all kinds of people, but I ONLY ADD PEOPLE I KNOW IN REAL LIFE.
That doesn't mean I won't waste time sending silly messages to both real life friends and virtual acquaintances. So drop me a line, and though I most likely won't add you if I don't really know you, I'll always write back.

My Blog

Louisa, sayer of Nice Things

I originally wrote this as an e-mail to my boyfriend, but decided to post it as a blog exactly as I wrote it.  All you have to know is that, the week before, I struggled to get up my nerve to tell t...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:07:00 GMT

Photos from Ross Lake Kayak trip

My son and I took a trip with OSAT -- the clean and sober outdoors club I belong to -- to this isolated lake in the North Cascades. You cannot reach it by road, and so it is largely undestroyed by pe...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:00:00 GMT

Mount Rainier -- AGAIN!!

It's time once again for me to post my annual blog pretending not to brag about how I summitted Mount Rainier  3rd time's the charm!  This time I climbed with an OSAT group approaching from the ...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:58:00 GMT

Summited Mount Baker

Went on another adventure this past weekend!  Climbed Mount Baker via the Coleman-Deming route. I turned 48 on Friday.  (THANKS TO EVERYONE who wished me happy birfday!)  My bf, Ge...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:39:00 GMT

13 & 14 years sober -- Party time!

This was Paul's and my 3rd Annual Birthday Bash... I love this party more each year we throw it.  This year, Paul was turning 14, I was turning 13, and Brent was about to leave us for his new lif...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:09:00 GMT

How my big fat ego chucked my camcorder off a cliff

NOTE: Yo. This is an article I wrote for the YODEL, which is the newsletter of OSAT (One Step at a Time) -- the clean and sober hiking club I belong to. The writing is a little more polished cause ...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:46:00 GMT

Hiking 175 miles in Glacier National Park

[note -- if the pics don't load, it's cuz there's something wrong with my photobucket account -- so try back later ;) ]So before it's totally old news, I wanna write the story of Gerard's and my fabul...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:32:00 GMT

Sydney

I just found out that my sweet little whippet, Sydney, has lymphoma.  I don't know how long he's got -- probably a couple of months.  He's been my best buddy, my first child, my lightning sp...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:11:00 GMT

Anderson Island weekend, 07

This year's Anderson Island get-together was another fun-filled weekend.  If you didn't make it this year, there's always next!I think my favorite time was when we all went down to the beach at a...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:05:00 GMT