I've been looking forward to this ever since we left Fort Lauderdale. Lake Tahoe is a special place and was a special time in my life. I lived here in 1980. I had just finished law school and taken the California Bar exam. It takes 3-6 months before you get the results, so I decided to use that time to have fun!! I moved to Tahoe and lived with my friend Melinda in Incline Village. I found a job as a cook and waitress in a local cafe (The Stereoscope Cafe). And, when I wasn't working, I was playing, partying, hiking, reading, meeting new people, just having all sorts of fun. Come to think of it, I was doing that when I was at work too. It was a great cafe where people came to eat and talk. I made a mean juevos rancheros!

Melinda still lives here. So, here we are with the spectacular Lake Tahoe as our backdrop.



And, here she is with her husband, Laird. Laird is a professor at the local Sierra Nevada College.



We went to visit his office in the newly completed library building.



Makes ya wanna go back to school doesn't it? It does me anyway, especially when I know he teaches classes like: the King Arthur Myth; Universal Themes in Literature, The Unconscious, the Ego, and the Search for Soul.

Then we went on to a presentation by a favorite artist of ours, James Christensen, who was visiting Tahoe. I've always loved his fantasy paintings (we had one in the house called 'fantasies of the sea" with little mermaids riding seahorses etc.), but it was so interesting to learn about his symbolism. For example, this guy's layers and layers of heavy clothes represents the encumbrances we collect as we grow older, the 'baggage' that accumulates and weighs us down. The name of this one is "Even as he stopped wobbling, Wendell Realized he had a Dilemma":



His artwork tends to ease your worries and make you smile.