Melanie Stevens:  

Now it is June 2014, I live on the beach in San Francisco. Couldn't be happier! I love seeing the waves from the living room windows. I am able to spend a lot of time with my family, both here and down south. After the passing of my mom in 2010, I want to spend as much time with my dad as I can. I am working very part time still, hope to find a new part time job in accounting soon. Not quite ready yet, just looking right now. I've been going to Disneyland and CA Adventure as much as I have time for, which is to say as often as I am down south! Life is good! Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 well if you want to stay current with me Facebook is the place but here is a little update. I just moved to Sunnyvale CA from Tarzana. I stopped working at the end of this tax season and had 2 yes 2 not 1 back surgeries 3 weeks apart. I am slowly healing and it will be some time before I work again! I never want to do another tax season. They are too taxing! Not for me anymore! I have caught up with many old friends over the last 4 years and really happy about that. I have a lot to do unpacking and shedding things I have carried around for far too long. My son Keith is a Tibbetan Buddhist and somehow he learned to have very few possessions. It is partly from moving around as a college kid, many of his friends are the same without being Buddist. I am learning from the younger generation to have less things. It makes life less complicated. Actually, I am happy to learn from anyone as long as I keep learning. Wed, Feb 9, 2011 - tax season again. Feels like I lost a year, my mom passed away suddenly Feb 1, 2010 and everything has been a blur ever since. Tomorrow is my son Keith's 27th birthday. Can't believe that many years has gone by. It seems like such a short time ago that he was little boy and we were always together. At least that hasn't changed. I see him every week and will until he moves to San F. area in June to finish his PhD at Livermore Labs. Then we'll see where he goes, with mom to follow...Back to work... April 2009 - It is Saturday 4/11/09 11 AM, I am at work trying to wakeup enough to prepare info for a tax return and I it's not happening yet. So, I've put on a DVD - Forbidden Kingdom with Jet Li and Jackie Chan for a little background distraction and my timekeeper. I know about how much time has passed when the movie is over. I am so looking forward to the end of tax season this year. I am very fortunate, I have plenty of work with new clients always coming in. So I can't complain. I feel for all that are having a tough time. I didn't make it to the Reunion. Work kept me here. One of the...Expand for more