Holly Davison Webber:  

Life Born and raised in Playa del Rey, CA, I attended Paseo Del Rey Elementary; Orville Wright Jr. High, and graduated mid-term in January 1973 from Westchester H.S.! From about 4th grade through Orville Wright, I was actually in the Class of '72; then when the mid-semester thing changed, I was one of those who decided to stay back, thus re-joining the Class of '73, with which I started! (Confused? Hey, so was I ... ) After H.S., I attended U.C. Santa Cruz (where I later learned that Phillip Gueddemi, Sally Balakrishnan, and many other WHS alumni also went; I was in the infamous "unnamed College V" for the "really weird people who had no idea what they wanted to do"), then transferred to and graduated from Cal Poly, SLO, in Ornamental Horticulture. While at Cal Poly, I got married at 19, and had my only child, son Wesley, at age 21. Unfortunately, my marriage didn't work out, and by 23 I was divorced and a single parent which was tough, especially back then. But being responsible for my delightful little boy gave me courage and a fearlessness I never knew I had. My first "real job" besides waitressing and cocktail waitressing was as a manufacturer's rep for a soil amendment and fertilizer company based in Salinas, CA (E. B. Stone). I had 2 different sales territories for them calling on various nurseries and was only the 2nd woman to do that job. Several other sales/marketing jobs (with less travel) followed over the years, and I worked for large companies such as AT&T and Wells Fargo, and small companies, and ending up specializing in GSA sales (selling Steelcase office furnishings contracts to the government; working with designers, project managers and installers to create custom workspaces for the feds based upon their mission; my main clients back then were the FBI here in Sacramento and McClellan and Travis AFB's, back when that's what they were!). Very suddenly and unexpectedly, my son became extremely disabled by losing both kidneys and developing schizophrenia at age 18 (in 1995, right around the time the Internet was evolving). Because I then needed more flexibility to deal with his needs, I left my outside sales career and started my own Internet home-based business revolving around the beautiful Bengal and Savannah Cats that I bred for many years; hdw-inc.com . Wes had a kidney transplant which lasted 17 1/2 years, and is now back on dialysis. His spirit is incredible; I am so blessed that we still have a close, loving relationship, and that he is such a genuinely sweet soul, so accepting of everything that has happened to him. He is my "rock star". Nowadays, I'm pursuing my passion for photography (landscape and nature photography), and love to take road trips in my small motorhome to find those special shots. So basically yes ... I've become a starving artist!! And yes, you can certainly tell me to "take a hike", hehehe!! I've actually developed a special technique with my photography which (to me) is very spiritual and comforting ... so since everyone these days can take amazing photos with even just their cell phones, this is a little niche I've created in the field. I can create custom photographic "memorials", or "tributes", or whatever you want to call them ... for loved ones we've lost (people, pets), and even to promote healing within generations. It's just o...Expand for more