Some very important people in my life
Every once in a great while, we meet someone who touches
our life in a very special way. We call these people friends.
Below are some of mine and what it is about them that makes them such special
friends to me.
If
ever there was a more blissful couple, they could not have been very much
more so than Brian and Marti. Brian and I met in the seventh grade in 1982
and have been best friends ever since. Brian and Marti became an item at
about the time they graduated from Stevenson College at UCSC in spring
of 92 and got married March 27, 1999. They own a house in Santa Cruz.
Marti works at UCSC's Lick Observatory
and Brian works in the Santa Cruz office of Zocalo
Internet.
Denna,
shown here with her horse, Estoreka, graduated an Animal science major
focusing on Equine Industries at Cal Poly Pomona. She and I have been friends
since high school. Since then I have watched her grow up to be a remarkably
strong and intelligent woman. She now lives in Palo Alto with her boyfriend
and enjoys one of the most interesting lifestyles I have seen.
Echo
came right out of the blue one day and sent me an e-mail from her home
town of Beijing, China. She graduated from a University in Beijing and
is currently attending London Business School. She is quite the photographer
and has the ability to read and write English every bit as well as the
most literate, well spoken Americans I know. To her, each day, each experience,
and each person she meets is an adventure, and she has become quite the
world traveler. On the Destinations of
Interest page there is a link to a page chronicling two trips we took
together while she was in America.
"Lulu"
is an ICQ pen-pal of Echo, ("lugu"), who began corresponding with me a
few years ago. She lives on Hainan Island in China, which many people
state is in many ways like Hawaii, and hopes to be able to travel the world
some day as her friend Echo does. In 2003 I got the oportunity to see her while on a
tour of China.
Cher
is yet another pen-pal from Asia who has begun corresponding with me. She
lives in Taiwan and works for an international cosmetics company, a job which
sends her to many places in the region.
Chuck
was my partner at Good Samaritan Hospital. He and I started flying helicopters
at Aviak at the same time. Shown here with his wife Claudia and their two
and a half year old daughter Tikwa.
Stephany,
(shown here at her 2000 graduation ceremony from Evergreen College, where
she received her Registered Nurse certification), and I have been close
friends since we first met when we both worked at San Jose Medical Center
in 1994, and later at Good Samaritan Hospital. She is a very appreciative
person and has a vital spirit that brings out the inner child in everyone.
Kathy
and Rosie are another blissful couple. They live together in Sacramento,
and became committed to each other in 1998. Kathy works as a teacher's
aid and Rosie operates a tree nursery in Elk Grove called Magpie Nursery.
Jenny
was my significant other during the Summer of 1991, during the time I attended
Summer Language Institute at UCSC, and we have remained good friends since
then. She has a zany, yet sensible personality and a mix of culture
and counter-culture that makes her a lot of fun to be with. Jenny
now lives in San Francisco, where she works at an employee owned grocery
co-op.
Sabine
is another student pilot at Aviak. She came here from Germany in 1992 to
learn how to fly helicopters and since moved back to Germany.
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