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WELCOME TO: GEMINI RISING   UPDATED INTRO 30 JUNE 2025: Just a little about me. I've been married for 33 years this past NOV and currently live in Southern California, but I grew up in New Hampshire. I've got 2 boys who are young adults. I work as a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. I enjoy my job a lot. Still. If you can believe that. I love to write. Thankfully both of my boys achieved Eagle Scout. My Scouting days are over and I'm back to focusing on my writing. I like to get out in nature, drink coffee and watch football. Here's a little bio about my zodiac. GEMINI: Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. CURRENT BLOG PROJECT:
RULES: 1. Blog has to be more than 2 paragraphs, some people have tried putting a one-liner response. That won't cut it. 2.You need to respond at least once every week to other participant's blog posts. This is a 7 week activity= 7 blog responses within each of the weeks. It's fun getting to see what others noted that you might have missed or hadn't thought about. 3. You don't need to blog everyday, catch-ups are allowed if you want to go for the bigger prize award. But each entry must be a separate entry. So, if you do all 51, you'll have 51 entries. 4. Please tag me Lyn's a Witchy Woman   in your entry so I can keep track of your entries for the prizes.5. Posting in a book is preferred to keep the forum from being clogged. You can use any book you want. ALONG FOR THE RIDE: HOST: Lyn's a Witchy Woman Princess Megan Rose  and her wolf, PeytonSung'manitu   and his pet rock, Peachy AmyJo-Moving day's soon here  SandraLynn  AmyJo-Moving day's soon here WakeUpAndLive  and her dog SproutKrista  Jellyfish RECOGNIZATION: 10-24 Entries, MB plus 10K Awardicon 25-50 Entries, MB plus 25K Awardicon 51 Entries MB plus 50K Awardicon Merit Badges Collected from Virtual Blogging &Virtual Blogging Friends: ![Merit Badge in Let Dreams Take Wing
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Congratulations on completing the 13 Poetic Days of Halloween.](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/group-Halloween-2026567.gif) Big Thanks to Lyn's a Witchy Woman for hosting the contest!Find me at: WEBSITE: http://www.stephanieburkhart.com FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/StephanieBurkhartAuthor GOOD READS: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4031660.Stephanie_Burkhart YOU TUBE CHANNEL: http://www.youtube.com/user/botrina?feature=mhee  WARNING I intend to be open, honest, and forthright. No topic is off limits from religion to you name it, I'm going there. If you think you might be offended...back up now - this blog isn't for you. For those who "dare"  check out the "Gemini Rising..." 
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SandraLynn was tanked up on Red Bull and her 64 oz Big Gulp and drove the Party Bus straight through those prairie states from Washington to get us to West Virginia in 24 hours flat. I had never seen anything like it. Mind you, she crashed hard when we went to the AirBnB . None of us had the heart to wake her up for our white water rafting adventure on the Gauley River and we were going to let her sleep, but as we were tip-toeing out of the cabin her alarm went off. Sung'manitu gave her a Red Bull and we were off. Lyn's a Witchy Woman and WakeUpAndLive was dying for some  BUT there was none to be found and we didn’t have the time to look for any. West Virginia really impressed me with its nature this time of year. The greens were extra green and air smelled crisp and clean. West Virginia really captured the nature of rural Appalachia and most everyone we met were really sweet people who would give you the shirt off their back if you needed it. We met the guide at this really calm water place. His name was Stone Hick. I kid you not!! Said his Mama had no idea if he was a boy or a girl and didn’t have a name picked when she gave birth. Well, it kinda suited him. He was tall, lean, muscled and had a dimple to die for. Krista and AmyJo-Moving day's soon here tried to flirt with him but he was stoney to their smiles. Everyone got suited up with life vests and helmets but Princess Megan Rose said no way, she was not getting in the raft. She said she’d hang out the Stone’s friend, Fred, a local Native American. AmyJo-Moving day's soon here left her $50.00 nalgene bottle with Princess Megan Rose so she wouldn’t lose it. Off we went! Krista put a GoPro on her helmet and took a video of our adventure for her Instagram. We made her sit up front with Sung'manitu The river started to move and got faster. We paddled, hit a wave and got soaked. “MORE!” yelled Lyn's a Witchy Woman . SandraLynn yelled, "Gimme another wave!" Jellyfish wanted to catch a fish to eat, but Stone said the fish weren’t all that tasty. After that, it was all a rush – wave, splash, paddle, adrenaline flood and do it all over again. At one point, I thought the raft would flip but Stone wiggled a little bit and the raft righted itself. When we got out of the raft, Fred and Princess Megan Rose met us. We went to one of those Hurricane dryers and then to Chetty’s for lunch. Lyn's a Witchy Woman and WakeUpAndLive got their coffees and we all had BIG FAT BURRITOS except for Jellyfish who ate the Kimchi fries. The evening was for hunting ghosts and we all got decked out – even Princess Megan Rose She kinda had the Elvira look. Krista went vamp with fishnet stockings and fancy gloves. I went Steampunk Goth. Sung'manitu channeled his inner Lon Chaney. I was impressed. We visited a haunted theatre and a mansion that really freaked everyone out when we FOR REAL saw a ghost pass through a wall. We made it to the AirBnB before midnight – thank goodness. No one melted and we passed out cold. |
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