Rhonda Mullis:
CLASS OF 1966
Edgewater High SchoolClass of 1966
Orlando, FL
University of Florida - BusinessClass of 1967
Gainesville, FL
Rhonda's Story
Life doesn't always turn out the way you expect - but in my case - it turned out way better! I guess that's because my expectations weren't very high! I always figured I would look and feel old at this age. But I feel great and am very, very happy!
I am a Licensed Massage Therapist/Spa Owner and now live in Vidalia, GA. I am still married to Larry (42 years) and have two sons, both educators.
I was born in Pavo, GA and lived on a farm in Thomas County until I was seven years old. Then we moved to Orlando, FL and I went to school there and got married there. My husband, Larry, was working for Winn Dixie and they transferred us to Jacksonville in 1974. Then they transferred us to Vidalia in 1983 where my husband was District Manager over a number of stores. He retired from that company about fourteen years ago and now works for a food broker.
I have worked at a lot of different jobs. I started working when I turned sixteen yrs. old. I worked in the dietary dept. at Florida Hospital part time while I was in high school. Then I started working for the insurance companies in Orlando. I changed companies as I got better offers. I went to court reporting school until I became pregnant with my second child - then I decided to just be a soccer mom. I never finished my court reporter training because we were transferred to Vidalia. Since living here, I have owned my own boutique, (named "Rhonda Ann's" for me and my partner). I have done a good bit of volunteer work. I took a course to learn how to teach illiterate adults and I volunteered to help young kids who were having difficulty with their reading while in Jacksonville. After we moved here I volunteered at a youth home, helping the students to improve their reading, writing, and vocabulary skills. I also taught Physical Science at that school one year. I have done some paralegal work for a lawyer. I have taught piano lessons and became a Kindermusik teacher. (It's a wonderful class where the moms bring their babies and we sit on the floor in a circle and just sing to the babies, dance the babies, rock the babies, let the babies hold little instruments and "play" them with the music, etc.) It's great for social development and for stimulating brain development in all areas. I taught classes for kids all the way up to seven years of age. At the age of four, they start learning to read music and play little instruments. Then I started my "Hidden Lake Retreat". I was teaching Yoga and Macrobiotics and was doing Craniosacral Light Touch Therapy. Then I became a Massage Therapist and that's what I'm doing now. I love it!
I am truly happy with my life because I have fun - esp. since I started hanging out at the river. I do massage therapy at my "swamp cabin spa" at Uvalda and at my ...Expand for more
Hidden Lake Spa in Vidalia. We have a house on the Oconee River, Uvalda, GA as well as in Vidalia, GA. I love my new boat, a Bass Tracker with a Johnson motor, my kayak, my Mustang GT, my dog, Happy, my work, the river, my family, my friends, my vacations (usually to the beach), and my whole life.
I'm not afraid to take my boat out on my own. I keep my boat at my dock in the water most of the time and it's really easy and convenient to just hop in and take off! It's fun, fun, fun! Larry travels in his work and the more independent I get the happier and more empowered I seem to feel. So, I think I have the best of both worlds. It's a good thing. And I'm my own boss. I love that.
I don't watch much TV but I do like American Idol. As of last week there were two guys remaining. I think Adam will win, how 'bout you?
What cracks me up is when I come home and my dog, Happy, a Bichon Frise' starts doing the Bichon blitz. He runs round and round and round the house - down the hall - back to the den - jumps up on the couch (all the way to the top of the back) and back down again - through the kitchen - back down the hall and so on. It's hillarious! And he does a lot of barking while he's doing it.
Canoeing, boating, and cooking out on the sandbars is great fun. Esp. at full moon at night. It's exhilarating! I have done moonlight massages on the dock. When the temperature is just right and the moon is full, it's a fabulous experience!
I went to the Qi ("Chee")Revolution for four days in Atlanta - Feb. 28 - March 3, 2009. It was 4 days of amazing Qigong Healing for $99 at the World Congress Convention Center. A whole bunch of people all vibrating with positive energy - and we made a circle and created an All One Spirit Battery. It felt like absolute bliss! And Massage Therapists got 32 CEU's for this course but you didn't have to be a Massage Therapist to take it.
I am also into Macrobiotic cooking. That's a healing "diet" (for lack of a better word, although it's not actually a diet). It's cooking whole foods. Eliminating refined, packaged foods as well as sugar and animal fats, etc. It was featured on the television series "The Incurables" which featured people that had been told they had a terminal, incurable disease...and then they recovered by using this way of eating. You can order the DVD of the television show from the Kushi Institue/ Kushi Store.
Some people I hope remember me are Doug Foley, Shirley Poff, Mark Fees, and Richard Pratt. And I am really trying to find a man named Donald Steele from Tennessee who was in the Air Force in Orlando in the late sixties. If anyone reading this knows him, please let me know.
That's about it for now - I'll update this as time goes on to keep it from getting too stale.
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