First of all I want to start with something I had meant to finish with in the last segment...

Working for Pan Am gave me one of the greatest gifts and has contributed  largely to who I am... I have a sense of the world and the people in it...

 

In addition it afforded me the luxury of traveling and making new friends I might have never had the chance to meet and having the adventures that have become treasured memories...  One of the greatest lessons I learned on my round the world fling is that your attitude is what can sometimes make the difference between having an ordeal and an adventure... because things don't always go as planned and sometimes there is no Plan B immediately available, so you have to improvise... with the right frame of mind and attitude. When everything ended with Pan Am a lot of people I knew were in limbo between trapezes (some of them still are)... I was not exactly sure what I was going to do either... but I had to jump and let go... it was really scary at times... but I did it alone, I did it broke and I did it sometimes really exhausted and wanting to cry... but I did it and found a new way by starting all over again and writing a new story. I made many mistakes on the way and you can't erase them because otherwise you would loose the wisdom and experience you found because of those mistakes...

 

So today I'm tying up some of the loose ends from the past to share with you here... because I think I've already shared most of the fun interesting things from my past and starting next month my writing here is going to focus almost exclusively on the present and the future... unless I think of something that is relevant to revisit.

A few people (who know me) have reached out to me via comments or e-mail and asked why I have written about my experiences about this, that and the other thing... and frankly I made a decision not to share every detail of my life because it was either too painful, personal or frankly boring in my opinion... I'm not going to write about people and situations that I hated...

OK so that being said there are are a few things that in my opinion did not have enough substance to them to warrant an entire blog...but... some of the things that I've done that I liked... if not loved doing was... 

I was a life guard...

 

 

and not only did it give me a great tan... but I worked with fun people and from that I ended up coaching for the Special Olympics once... and I was a lifeguard at the Los Angeles Olympics  for water events

 

 

I've been asked probably a million times why trained athletes would need a paid lifeguard at these events... it's necessary for insurance purposes. Luckily nothing of any consequence happened... and I got paid rather well and had a pass for all the other events when I was not working.

I also worked as a fashion model...