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Profile

updated 03/11/2002

Let’s see, what hat am I wearing today? Ahhh, editor. Right up my alley. I worked 5 years analyzing records for the Yucca Mountain Project in Las Vegas, NV.

The records then had to be indexed with keywords in order to be easily searched for and found. Sound familiar?

I've been with ODP since early NewHoo. Who knew how far it would go? Amazing!

What other hats have I worn? Lathe and mill operator, undercover security arresting shoplifters,

Nordstrom buyer’s assistant, owned a machine shop in Morro Bay.

and diamond plated manufacturing companies with my first husband.

Then with my current husband I had a business on the side analyzing and designing forms, creating and marketing webpages while working on the Yucca Mtn Project.

I have been an incest recovery, child support, and father’s rights activist. I used to speak, write and perform on the subject of incest recovery.

ACOA Incest Survivors is a large part of my recovery.

I love performing comedy

and drama.

I’ve been with Mark Miller since our first blind date on June 5, 1992. The subject finally came up that night. "Well, how old are you?" I asked him. He said, "Thirty." He saw the look on my face. "Why? How old are you?" Gulp. "I’m 38." We both looked at each other for a little while til the age difference didn’t matter.

I hit 48 years old in September 2001.

We finally married on June 5, 1996.

I have 4 kids from my first 20 year marriage: Tara (29), John, (26), Angela (17), Marygrace (13).

Mark has 2 kids: Aaron (16) by his ex-wife, and Katie Rose (10) by his ex-girlfriend (She's a wonderful, cooperative parent).

Our kids named us the MBW Family cuz that incorporates everyone’s last names. At one point we had 4 different visitation schedules cuz of Angela's year round school. Whew!

Now it's 3 (my girls, my stepson, my stepdaughter) visitation schedules. Mark won custody of his 13yo son because of her continuing visitation denial, so regular time with both parents for all the kids is going much better.

Katie Rose's mom moved from Simi Valley CA to Paso Robles CA for a new job. Then Mark got a job in Santa Monica and we moved from Vegas to Redondo Beach CA, which would have been closer to Katie in Simi Valley. Such is life.

Angela and Marygrace's dad moved to England and they spent summer 1999 with him. Now he's moved to Los Osos, CA, near Katie Rose. Such is life.

We have 5 grandchildren. Brittny's our oldest angel.

Mark was laid off May 1998 because of a merger. He got his MCSE/MCT and was off and running with his own business again. He's 14 years clean in NA, a private pilot, and a gourmet cook. His last consulting job had him traveling nationally 6 days a week. He was having a ball. Me :-( . That project ended, and we moved to CA for a director internet services job in an internet start-up opportunity he couldn't resist. It's called Viva.com I LOVE the advertising

We researched on the internet intensively for where to live in CA. We wanted by the beach, excellent schools, small town feel, everything close by, and mapped Mark's route to work in Santa Monica. Redondo Beach was the big win. It helped that it was 15 minutes to LAX (our hope's for lots more traveling), and next door to LA for plenty of interesting stuff to do. After actually living here and school starting - we are confident we made the right choice.

Not to mention our delight with Redondo High School's own ISP and laptop program. All freshman get a laptop for the year. All classwork and homework is done on the laptop. Their goal is some day 6th graders will have a laptop thru jr hi and high school. I'll include a link about the program when I find one.

I retired in June '98. I’m now in the business of choosing what I want to do each day (scary and unfamiliar).

My daughter, Tara, and her husband, Craig, live in Minnesota with their 2 sons, Brian and CJ, and their daughter, Sera Angel.

My son was planning to marry a single mom 8 years older than himself. He called me concerned about the age difference. I said, "John, Mark's 8 years older than me." He said, "Oh." Now they're happily married with Brittny (7) and Drew (1 year). My step-granddaughter Brittny was attending the same elementary school as my daughter in Las Vegas. And Brittny's best friends with my stepdaughter Katie Rose. *chuckle* We're a 90's family.

John got laid off 6/98 from his receiving dock mgr job in CA and moved his family to Vegas to go into business with my husband, then for himself, and working with Purchase Pro, having been self-taught on the computer and the works we bought his family a couple of years earlier. Promotion after promotion he now works at vegas.com

We tried getting him into the internet startup company with my husband, or at least into CA, cuz we miss seeing each other's families regularly and often. It didn't work. Purchase Pro offered him more of a deal he couldn't resist, and one my husband's employer couldn't match.

My latest interest is in multiculturalism and anti-prejudice. My 13 year old stepson came home one day sharing about being taught to fear Mormons by his church in CA. He felt stunned and scared to learn his oldest stepbrother's family was Mormon. We had an excellent talk about fear and prejudice of other cultures and religions.

My oldest daughter has become strict Catholic and is not comfortable with my son's Mormon religion, my interest in many religions, or our choice to teach our kids cultural and religious tolerance. She disowned me @12/98 saying "You will never have the opportunity to influence my children to change their religion." She admits I've never done that, "But you might!"

Leaving Las Vegas behind for Redondo Beach CA, and my husband having won custody of his 13yo son who moved in with us 9/17/99, we've all entered a new wonderful chapter in our lives.

My girls (on the left in '98, Marygrace a cheerleader, Angela will be next year), my 8 yo stepdaughter Katie Rose (planning to be a cheerleader - geez, I never used to know any cheerleaders), and my 14yo stepson already programming in 5 languages and writing in assembly language, are looking forward to many fond memories in the making.

ps. three kids finished their braces. *relieved sigh*

I've always envisioned that I would have a life enjoying the company of all kinds of people and cultures. My vision has been coming true.

Ain’t life interesting?