I'm a crazy "old married lady" with a daughter who is also married. So now the only "kids" in the house are my pets.

I tend to be very opinionated and stubborn, but that is tempered with an understanding of where a deeper emotional pain comes from. I've always felt empathy for others, but only realized recently that I am actually empathic and am learning how to control that now that I understand what it is.

I've studied herbs and crystals for use as alternatives to lab-created medications, and use them for both their healing energies and their magical properties. I love working with crystals and have been using crystal beads to make rosaries, prayer chains and jewelry.

I like being around wild places, the ocean or the forest being my favorites …… and its so much fun to find a dirt road and follow it wherever it leads. I love animals (I have lots of fish (5 tanks full!), a bird, a cat and a dog) and chocolate (who doesn't love chocolate?), quiet evenings at home with my family, and rainy, cool days (weekend of course) so I can have a fire going and curl up with a good book.

I don't like California drivers (cell phone or not, they make me crazy), spammers, solicitors of any type, brussel sprouts or canned meat (yuck!).