Jaci McKim:  

Life After living in Washington state for the majority of my first 45 years, and escaping the "small" town where I grew up as soon as I graduated from high school to move to the the "big city" of Seattle, I'm now living on the Oregon Coast in a town of 1,200 residents (much, MUCH smaller than my too small home town). If you watch the movie "Hysterical," or the fishing scene in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," you can see my new "home" town, Depoe Bay. I own the city's only taxi company, and I occasionally design graphic art work for some of the local businesses and the Chamber of Commerce. I also design wearable art, and have lectured at art museums here in Oregon state. Currently, I'm living with my two cats, Thistle & Polly, and a male Brewer's Blackbird that I raised from an egg 4 years ago (2001), Walter Mathilda, who oversees, supervises (and CORRECTS) ALL household operations. I have 2 nieces who visit regularly from Coos Bay, Oregon, and 1 niece from Waikoloa, Hawaii, who spends her summers with me here on the mainland. Together, we travel and devote our time to finding every single fun activity on the coast (and there are quite a few). In my "old age", I love to cook and bake for special occasions, and have become quite involved in the local politics of our little town, serving on the City Council. I've a...Expand for more