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CAST OF CHARACTERS These are the folks who show up most often in this journal. Others who pop in from time to time will be identified as they make their appearance. FAMILY Walt - long-suffering husband since 1965. I’m not sure why he puts up with me, but he does. He once made a web page in a class, but never went back to do anything with it again. His web page is proof that nothing is ever lost in cyberspace! Jeri - born 1966, living in Boston. She graduated from Berklee College of Music and is now Assistant Professor at Berklee, and Woodwind Instructor at Brookline Music School. She gives private music lessons, and plays clarinet, saxophone and flute in pit bands for various theatrical productions in and around Boston..She also has a couple of degrees in theatre design and in her spare time does lighting design for small theatres in the Boston area. Phil - Jeri's husband, as of August 2008. Jeri and Phil have been friends since junior high school and he has lived with her in Boston for several years now. Ned - born 1967, the imaging director on Jack-FM (93.7-FM) radio station in Sacramento. He and his wife live in Sacramento with their shelter dog, The Bouncer. Marta - Ned’s wife, a certified massage therapist with her own business, Jakarta Bodyworks. Call 916 718-5903 if you're in the Sacramento area and want a good massage. Paul - died at age 30 in 1999 Audra - Paul’s widow, who is a veterinarian working in Southern California. She has remarried and recently became a mother for the first time. Thomas/Tom - born 1970, lives in Santa Barbara and works for an international computer sotware development company as a Senior product manager, whose specialties are "Software; Product Management; Product Design & Development; Implementation; Consulting Services; Sales; Human Resources; Finance; Compensation Management; Performance Management; Talent Management; Human Capital Management; HCM; EPM" (from his Linked-in profile) Laurel - Tom's wife, who works in banking, but just changed companies and I'm not too clear on where exactly she works now. Brianna - Tom and Laurel's daughter, born March 31, 2008. Naturally she's the most beautiful, most intelligent baby ever born. I'm not prejudiced. Not me! David - died at age 24 in 1996 Peach & Bob - My cousin (whose given name is Carolyn), and her husband. Kathy & Fred - Kathy is the other cousin I talk about when I refer to "Cousins Day." (I have 32 cousins in all, but Peach and Kathy are the closest) Norm and Olivia (generally come as a set) - Walt’s brother and his wife. Alice Nan - Walt’s sister Joe - Alice Nan's husband Alice - Walt’s mother FRIENDS WHO APPEAR MOST OFTEN IN THIS JOURNAL: Peggy - My dearest friend, who lives in Australia. She gave me my first digital camera and got me started with PhotoShop, for which I will be forever grateful. We met in real life, after a year of a pen pal relationshp when she spent a 6 week vacation with us in 2000, during which time we became very close face to face friends, as well as on-line friends. I visited her in 2003, which was the trip of a lifetime for me. Char - We have been friends since college and with her I have gone on some of the weirdest and most fun adventures of my life. The stories in which Char is a co-star are always the best ones. Mike - Char's husband Steve - Singer/songwriter Steve Schalchlin, one of the "grand old men of on-line journaling," whom I’m proud to call my friend. His song cycle, "New World Waking" was performed in December 2008 at Davis Symphony Hall in San Francisco, by the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. Jim/Jimmy - Steve's partner of more than 20 years, a fabulous actor who has been touring the country with his one-man show, Zero Hour, a play about Zero Mostel which he wrote and stars in and has won tons of awards for. Now in New York for an open-ended run. Olivia - My friend and former biking buddy, now living in Boise, Idaho. Joan - a friend who lives a block away from me, but whom I almost never see. She and I have been playing on-line Scrabble for many years now (she wins more times than I do). Shelly and Ellen - good friends, a lesbian couple who have been activists for gay rights forever. They were legally married during that brief window when marriage was legal for gay couples in California. Ashley - my contact at the SPCA, the canine coordinator who keeps filling my house with dogs and who has been my redeeming angel on more than one occasion. Gilbert - Once my best friend, an actor and the longtime Musical Director for The Lamplighters, who died in 1986 "Dr. G" and "The Psychiatrist" - both men I once worked for, simultaneously. I worked for Dr. G for not quite 2 years as his office manager and for The Psychiatrist for about 30 years, as his at-home transcriptionist PEOPLE IN THE LAMPLIGHTERS HISTORY PROJECT Alison - We have been friends since 1975, when we collaborated with another woman to write the first of what will eventually be three Lamplighters histories. Barbara - is the artistic director of The Lamplighters Kathryn - a Lamplighters volunteer whose idea it was to do a book for the 60th anniversary. FOUR LEGGED FRIENDS Sheila and Lizzie - our current dogs |
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