Jackie McLoughlin:  

If you're checking out my story, you're either a sobbingly regretful boyfriend who glibly tossed me aside for a larger bust measurement with a smaller brain, or a great girlfriend who passed entire mountains of (non-recycled!) notes to me about the aforementioned sleezeburgers. To the sleezeburgers: they got bigger and are now HUMUNGUS, so cry your eyes out! To the girlfriends: thank God we had brains! Isn't Life the perfect way to pass the time away!? The ride has been, and still is, so interesting that I'll still be at it when I'm a hundred and ten, but here's an encapsulation of "Jackieventures" since I last saw you: I left Kearny in 1962 to complete high school in Quantico, VA, at the Marine base located there. The art award I garnered there encouraged me to go on to major in fine art and minor in English at Northern Illinois University. When we made another military move, I finished up at SDSU. By the time I graduated I'd married an artist/writer (blueloonfinearts.com) and was firmly dedicated to the freelance life, although I had no idea what that meant at the time! Working at Psychology Today Magazine, Del Mar, among people who made their living writing and creating art provided the 60 hour week crash course I needed to see how it could be possible. In '69,following my Father's tragic death in a military plane crash in '68, we left on a photographic assignment through the South Pacific for the book Anthropology Today. Living as the natives did, landing on "runways" that were vague areas cleared of palms, we island hopped across the Pacific looking for Mead's and Malinowski's sexually craven islanders and found that Mead had supplied an entire village with pants, and that the U of Santa Barbara's anthropologists had sewn marijuana seed into the pant cuffs of visiting natives for their return "trip" home . . .so much for the "scientific" method! Our trip ended in New Zealand, where we finished work on the anthro book and began working in advertising and publishing. Living in a socialist system where salary was based on year...Expand for more