Phoenix House

My Response to A Time When Marijuana Is Legal

On: July 10, 2013

This issue is so huge that it makes me tired just trying to figure out where to begin with my response. I guess the best place to start would be to suggest you read all of the information and feedback on our Drug Law Reform, and War Stories pages, andRead More →

Welcome to my site! I have done a lot of things in and with my life. I hope you will find some of them interesting or amusing 😉 Just a sampling include:

I raised 3 of my own biological children and 4 more step children who are all adults now. I currently have 8-1/2 grand children. <3
I left the Mormon (LDS) church after being raised in a devout family, then through studying discovered I did not believe it’s teachings were based on truth.
I started my life over again, with just 3-suit cases and $500, after struggling 18 years in a dysfunctional and abusive marriage.
Together with my life-partner, Jeff, I started a multi-level, mail-order gourmet coffee, tea, cocoa, and biscotti company that I ran for 3+ years, recruiting home-based consultants in 5 states.
I lived an off-grid lifestyle, with 6 kids ages 6 – 16, for a year and a half, on 20 acres of land we purchased on Central Oregon’s High Desert.
I taught myself how to make handcrafted jewelry and turned that craft into a small business.
I taught myself the art of pyrography (wood burning) and also turned that skill into a small business.
Jeff and I became marijuana drug law reform activists in a very public way in 2001 when we published a full-page ad as the first mainstream couple to stand up and proclaim ourselves to be pot smokers and good neighbors. This activity led to interviews on more than 25 talk radio and television stations nation-wide as well as opportunities for public speaking to crowds of up to 10,000, conducting our own audio interviews with luminaries in the community, hosting events, etc.
I published an online magazine for the high-raw foods community called Eighty Percent Raw, recruiting a team of more than 25 raw food chefs and healthcare practitioners who contributed content monthly for 4+ years.
I have been a partner and administrator with Jeff in his software development business for 25+ years.
I taught myself to read tarot cards and have acted as a spiritual adviser to thousands of clients worldwide on matters of the heart, career, education, health, and many other matters.
I am lucky enough to have lived in one foreign country (Germany) for 4+ years as an adult and traveled to 7 other foreign destinations (Canada, Mexico, Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, Italy, and Greece)
I am a self-published author (Lady, Get a Life!) and am currently about half-way through writing The Golden Telescope, the first in a YA (Young Adult) Fantasy Fiction novel series called Jack and the Magic Hat Maker.
I have joined more than 15 network marketing companies.
I partnered with Jeff in creating a small record label and music promotion company called Hot Chops Music, financially supporting several musicians and local artists and enabling them to get their music professionally produced in a recording studio.
And lots more…