Jeeby Trailer:  

Life My biggest accomplishment was running the Iditarod and surviving. OK, I did not "complete" it but I ran it. Who knew that AK would come up with all these stupid regulations like checkpoints and stuff. I would have done better the following year but I fell off Denali (the mountain, not the park) and spent the following year in rehab. The pain pills they gave me were addictive, so another 6 months of a different kind of rehab followed. Then I married my B husband, (whom I met in rehab, the second one!) and life went spiralling down. After repeated episodes of one or the other of us being charged with assault, I divorced him before we killed each other. This all happened before I was 30. Never marry someone you meet in rehab! I then began my spiritual journey, moved around from pillar to post before coming back to Florida. I guess I have always been what is called free spirit, as I don't like confinement. My big regret is not completing my education. I quit school after Leto when my family moved to Utah. My dad had this nutty idea about becoming a Mormon so he could have multiple wives. He found out that he had to go through a lot to be a Mormon, and give up smoking and drinking and give the church 10% of his money, and they don't allow multiple wives anyway. So he simply moved us deep into Chaco Canyon in New Mexico and brought in 3 women to live with us. (Mom was and still is in prison, long story, I'm over it.) I never could decide if Dad thought he was the Dalai Lama or some kind of Charles Manson or what. We always had at least 3 women "serving" him and treating me like s---. One of my "step-moms" got disability for something (I think being crazy) and that is what we lived off, that and what Dad shot or caught in a trap, which in Chaco is not much! I left home when I was 17 and struck out for AK. Nobody asked me much and I didn't tell much. By the first winter I had a cabin all to myself in Ester, which is outside Fairbanks and is so cold. I literally had to wake up hourly to stoke my woodstove every night or freeze. I worked as a cook at a nearby mining camp until the next summer. I then became a drifter. ...working in a fish canning plant in Anchorage, supervising a road sign crew in Idaho, head of the Crisis Center in NM, (really!)testing cough drops in CA, (that was a trip!)employment counselor in WA, baker in Utah, wrangler in Utah, road crew (again!) in Utah, making ceramic bell towers in Indiana,(Ugh, will NOT go there again!) waitress/bartender work in FL, GA, AL, NC and TN, picking fruit and veggies all over when I could not find another job, and finally my current position, building custom fishing rods for a national company. (Get to do that at home!) After dealing with all that abuse from my husband, I wanted something a little softer in my life, so I checked out women. I don't know if I was gay back when I was at Leto or not. Sometimes I did think I had a crush on certain girls (and one teacher)but I always thought everyone did that. I met a lot of womyn and had some good times but due to my wanderings, I did not settle with one until.... Incredibly, in Seattle, at a gay Star Trek Con, I met the woman of my dreams! And even more incredibly, she graduated from Leto in Tampa in 73! I sort of vaguely remembered seeing her around, as we didn't hang with the same bunch. We think she was in Hammer's math class with me in 10th grade which was my last year. (My only year at Leto, hell my only year of high school!) Who would have thought it? Are we soul mates or what? (Neither of us looks butch by the way) She is shy so I won't mention her name...she can out herself when she is comfortable. She has not yet signed up here. We have had 5 years together and I highly recommend it! Better in every way than a man. She is so gentle...Expand for more