Rebecca Flaming-Martin:
CLASS OF 1973
Monroe High SchoolClass of 1973
Portland, OR
Benson Polytechnic High SchoolClass of 1973
Portland, OR
Marshall High SchoolClass of 1973
Portland, OR
Binnsmead Elementary SchoolClass of 1969
Portland, OR
Binnsmead Middle SchoolClass of 1969
Portland, OR
Rebecca's Story
I'm selling my handcrafted bead embroidered jewelry and the stuffed animal patterns on eBay and on Etsydotcom. My eBay store is called Fantasy Creations, please look it up on eBay through the stores directory. I'm not allowed to post the address here. I have three stores on Etsy: FantasyCreations1 for my jewelry, FantasyCreations for my stuffed animal patterns and a few finished soft sculptured animals, and Starfirehawk to sell art quilts.
I have a bolg. If you search blogspot under the name FantasyCreations you should be able to find it. Lately I have been blogging about the TV show Beauty and the Beast. I was posting poetry and wisdom earlier. Sometimes I post photos of my creations.
If you remember me from high school you remember I was always a creative young entrepreneur. So, I'm struggling to make money working for myself again. For the 10 years before that I worked for Portland Public schools, first as a substitute and then as a high school English teacher. I worked a year at Benson and a year at Marshall before being transferred to Madison High. I actually like working with teen agers but I'm not a teacher any more because no matter what I did I could not please a new administrator who was evaluating me. It broke my heart and I resigned. To be honest I am still bitter about how I was treated by the administration at Madison. That vice principal is now the principal of Lincoln High; God help those teachers!
If I were going to work for anyone again I would need an employer who appreciated me for all of my creativity and commitment and let me know I was valued. I'm completely burned out on working for people who focus only on my defects and never say "thanks" or "you did a good job."
I wish I could say, "Thank God I'm happier now than I've ever been before, and I owe it all to the doors God closed, and the ones He opened." I work on being happy moment by moment.
I always wanted to be a writer when I grew up. I want to write a book about ADHD. I want to interview dozens of people who are coping...Expand for more
with ADHD and put their stories together into a book. I finally go diagnosed with mild ADHD and now see myself and my entire life quite differently. If you knew me at Binnsmead you'd remember how I loved to push the merry-go-round to top speed, climb up onto a bar, cross my feet under it and throw myself out--upside down, spinning, over space, my long hair flying out...ah those were the days! How about at Monroe High School, do you remember me bringing my 6 foot tall paintings of Bobby Sherman and showing them off? Do you remember that Bobby wrote me a brief thank you note after I mailed him one of them? I created a web site to honor my teen devotion to Bobby Sherman (search using Shermanville U.S.A.) and posted my adolescent love poetry and photos of my paintings there. (Girls who knew me from 1970-1973 would enjoy viewing this).
It's hard to believe that so many years have passed, when I think back to who I was, and what I hoped my life would be like. I reread my adolescent diaries once and had a strange shock when I lifted my eyes and time traveled back to the present. (If you haven't seen the movie The Butterfly Effect you should rent it.) I am no longer the conservative Republican who preached to people. I'm a flaming liberal Democrat, supporting Obama and other Democrats.
Health Care is an important issue to me as I face health problems in my sunset years. It has not been an easy road and I have learned a lot of lessons. I had a dream once that the secret to a longer and a happier life is: "LONGER HUGS AND SLOWER BREATHING." I certainly don't have all the answers. Life is a journey. Be kind to others along the way. Find ways to be the balm of blessing that heals instead of the knife that cuts. Life has taught me "there are no answers; there are only questions." Love and Peace, Becky
P.S. I have been unwilling to pay for a membership so they don't let me see the signitures of those who read my page. If you have something important you want to say to me my email is beckystarfirehawk at yahoo dot com
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