Can you hear me now?

  Yes.

Then... we have a connection?

    Yes.

    Good to meet you.

  Hmmm... yes, of course, my point exactly.

So... Of all the places you've lived, Denver, Seattle, L.A. and Fresno to name a few, which did you like best, and do you plan on retiring there?

    I loved Seattle, it was a cultural hub, with theatre, and music, and I loved the people, the ocean and mountains, but - too much rain, and my ex lives there.... I want to live in the desert, but am unsure about the heat anymore.

  So... I don't think it's a secret you live in Texas now, and that part of your job is showing property?

     I show towers in North Texas for communication sites, and some really ratty strip center properties.

  Well, I'm sure you're aware of what happened in Dallas recently, (the real estate lady who was murdered while supposedly showing a property)... and you, yourself are careful?

    Yes, I think she might of been "set up," she went through a messy divorce recently; as for myself, I don't "dress up," when I do a "showing," and I have lots of people around, especially when showing strip property.

Yeah, those "messy divorces." Sounds like you are aware of your surroundings and take plenty of precautions, which is good.

    I'm aware of my surroundings, I think I was less safe when my oldest daughter was dating thugs...

  I've got to ask this one. Another Blogger on the stream originally interviewed you, but that one met with some resistance and was not published. Why?

    There had been some recent "interactive blog to blog play," and the concern was that it (the interview) might attract some negative reactions, so we canceled it.

  But with your "high visibility" on the stream, doesn't any interview run that chance?

    I suppose so, but it's been awhile now, I don't see a problem.

  I wonder if you would share your age and birthday?

     I'm 49 and will be 50 on August 1st.

  So... you have the same birthday as my brother (Aug 1) and your sign is "Leo," which is the name of one of my characters on my blog. A lot of Leo's, eh?

    No kidding? Your brother's birthday is August 1st too; see, Six's and Pup's are the same also. Coincidence?

   So... do you like the character Leo?

      I love Leo the character... he's a water sign though.

   Oops! what do you mean... a water sign?

      Pisces... born in March.

   That's odd, I don't remember giving him a "birthday"?

     I know.

Hmmm...

    Maybe I just imagined him as a "March guy," he's too dreamy for a Scorpio, so, he has to be a water sign with his intuition and shifting abilities. I guess you would like me to stop speculating about your character, but he is amazing...

  No, not a problem, it was me that brought him up, but this interview is about you, so... moving on, "If you could go anywhere in the world on a 3 week vacation without money worries, or any worries for that matter, and everything was laid out as dictated by you, where would you go, and what would you do?"

    I think I would go to Italy. Rent a villa and tour the countryside. I doubt I will ever have the opportunity to go, now, but I would do at least a week of museums and seeing the great art. I would play classical music real loud and it would ring throughout the villa, and I would sleep with the windows open and the wind blowing through the room. I would have the local Mafia as security, and there would be a large swimming pool and beautiful gardens.

I was thinking "the islands," perhaps Jamaica, but I must say you just painted one hell of a picture, and in fact I could almost make it my same desire, except maybe for the Mafia.....lol.

    I've never been to Hawaii, and that occurred to me, but it's too commercial. John wants to go back to Hawaii, he's into scuba diving, so, I guess I'll be going to Italy without him...lol.

  Oh, I kinda doubt he'd let you do that. My youngest son went to Hawaii on his honeymoon, and was "under-impressed," but I think he might of been a little "young," to fully appreciate it. I could spend a couple of days just at Pearl Harbor.

   Yes, but I want a place that has no sadness, and where I have no roots. As for John, I think our days of going everywhere together are over. I'm a realist, and I don't want to go back...

  Do you have a dark complexion or light? Seems like in one of your blogs you described yourself as possessing a dark complexion.

    I have a farmers tan right now, I'm not really pale, maybe a little on the dark side with a little Indian blood mixed with the German on one side and the English Irish on the other. My kids are very pale.

  You spoke of "your days of going everywhere with John," as being over, why is that?

    It's all to do with me being a "commitment phobic," I'm not sure I want a partner for life. Maybe I'll move to Italy and acquire a gigilo... I don't know how to spell it though, so I doubt I would ever do it.

  Well, I checked the spelling and you were only one letter off, and in any event all you'd need to do is - pronounce it right....lol.

    Ok... Who was that Scarlet O'Hara character - grown old?

   I don't know, can you elaborate?

    The movie where Vivian Leigh went to Italy and met a young Warren Beatty.

  I get the drift, although I didn't see the movie, and speaking of movies... what's your all-time favorite?

    The Maltese Falcon.

  Hmm.. I have it, and love it. Humphrey Bogart was out of this world in my opinion, and I miss him and others like him. By the way, your answer surprises me a little.

    Bogart in his prime... the beginning of mystery in film, characters with dark sides, a heroine murderer, an anti-hero that loves her, and takes her down anyway... I love classic films, like Hitchcock, "The 39 Steps".

  Did you ever see "Farewell My Lovely," with Robert Mitchum?

    Yes, wasn't the screenplay based on Raymond Chandler's book?

  Yes, one of my favorite authors. "The 39 Steps," never appealed to me, nor Hitchcock actually, except for that one that had Jimmy Stewart in a wheelchair... I forget the name.

   "Rear Window,"...his best.

  I agree.

 "Classical Music?" Did your Dad introduce you to it?

   NO... My Dad was really into country music.

  So... where did you acquire your love of it?

    My parents loved live theatre, and when I was 19 I ran across a boxed set of LP's, (classical music). I lost them in my divorce, my ex held them for ransom and although I returned his finger, (he still has it in the fridge), he gave my albums away.

  Lol, you must elaborate on "the finger in the fridge," it sounds like a poem by Edgar Allen Poe.

   My ex lost his finger in a construction accident, and it couldn't be reattached, so he kept it in a small bottle (in alcohol). When we split he took everything but forgot the finger. I held it for ransom, but eventually gave it back. He was sentimental about it, and the kids say he still keeps it close to him.... The ransom was unsuccessful, but I had no use for the finger, so...

  X'cuse me... I'm laughing, and I guess, “you gave him the finger,” in the truest form...lol.

    I know.

  Hilarious...

   It was a funny time in my life... I really wanted to be rid of "all" of him, and the finger needed to go back to him. He used to take it out and show people, as an ... "icebreaker."

 Still laughing... "some icebreaker"...

    Yeah, it was hard to keep friends (couples especially), they were afraid he would bring out other body parts.

And you say you have a problem with humor in your writings...

You say in your "100 Interesting Things About Myself," that you've "never" been addicted to sex, which I find interesting because I think that most people, men/women, would say the same thing. I guess the "key" word here is "addicted." Why do you feel the need to make the statement?

   Early on in the Blogstream there was a lot of kidding around and sexual innuendo, I'm kinda like that in real life too. Anyway, at the time I added that to my list of "100 things", I had just posted the "Sundance Saloon" posts where I admitted to having a few partners, many years ago, and I just wanted to set the record straight.

  I'd say you have. My own opinion on that subject, (addicted to sex) is this; "I'm addicted to people, and sex is something that people do, so, in a way I might be addicted to sex, I guess."

   Cute.. Ice.

  That's my story and I'm sticking with it.... lol.

     I think when I was younger, I was conflicted about sex, and love, and lots of things.

  Yeah, society has a way of doing that to it's young.

     Not really society... I was not the settling down type, and maybe I thought I was supposed to be.

  By "settling down," do you mean getting married, having kids, white picket fence, etc. etc.?

    Yes.

  Well, join the crowd, that's been my life... for most of it.

    I wanted kids but I didn't really want to be married.. which is one reason the marriage was so bad.

  But of course "society" dictated kids "with" marriage only. Can you tell I "dislike" --- "society and its standards?"

    I have a problem with "morality by society's accepted standards."

  Exactly.

    I married late and never remarried because in all honesty, I don't know if I want to be married.  When I met John I reconsidered, but life got in the way. His problems, then mine. My friend Lori used to say that I was really good at thinking "outside the box," but someday I was gonna have to learn to live "inside the box." I haven't told her this, but she could be right.

Living "inside the box," becomes less hard, the older one gets.

   There is something "life affirming" about the storyline on your blog.... maybe the "middle-age angst thing," can be circumvented metaphysically? I want to write a book, but I'm just not focused enough... right now.

Maybe the "stream" is a start?

    Yes, the "stream" is definitely a start...

  Let's do the CD thing. What music are you playing right now, and what's in line to play?

    Romeo and Juliet Tchaikovsky, anything Gershwin, Vivaldi, The 4 Seasons, No. 1 in E, anything - Lacy J. Dalton. I love classical music, of course, but I think my tastes are kind of "pedestrian," kind of like in literature.  I have read the classics, but I enjoy the "almost classics." In classical music, I tend to like the very popular, like, Dvoark, New World's Symphony, or Chopin.

  I don't care much for classical music, although I've read extensively about the classical artists...

   Vivaldi has a lot of classical guitar and strings.

  What about your writing? Where do you want to go with it?

    I want to write a book, in different voices, or from different characters viewpoints, I want to write about the "stream".

  Yeah, that might be interesting.

    We have the major characters; stalkers, romantics/romances, Don Juans, unhappily married, people in the middle of spiritual experiences, marriages, pregnancies, wild....

   You've got that right. Maybe we could "collaborate" on a book about the "stream"?

     Yes, I love how your writing has a science fiction edge to it.

  Thanks...

Ok... now's the time to name 5 bloggers who you would like to be sitting with - at an outdoor restaurant, in Rome, Italy, talking about life.

   I kinda want to cheat on this one..

By all means, cheat if you want,...lol.

   I think I would want to rent the entire restaurant out... You and Puppy, Daisy and Scratch, and Janey Godley... there is no way I could choose just 5. Taylor would have to there, and McKenzie too, and many, many others on the stream.

You may click the link after the blogger's name to bring you to their post.

1) Ice - http://sagacity.blogstream.com/

2) Puppy - http://schnauzerlover.blogstream.com/

3) Daisy - http://dazeofmylife.blogstream.com/

4) Scratch - http://nightlite.blogstream.com/

6) Janey Godley - http://janeygodley.blogstream.com/

7) Taylor - http://lovefromhealingcreek.blogstream.com/

8) Mackenzie90 - http://mackenziesinnerfire.blogstream.com/

You're a believer in reincarnation. For how long? And have you ever had solid reason to believe it?

   I've always believed in it, since I studied metaphysics in my late teens... no solid evidence, but it is the only thing that makes sense from a "fairness," and soul growth respective. Like a lot of my beliefs, no real evidence. I have re-read "Mansions of the Soul" again lately, and I think the "stream" kind of made me feel that from a "life experience" standpoint, the feelings I had were evidence of a "reconnection."

  Is that the exact title of the book, and who wrote it?

     Yes, I believe so, and H. Spencer Lewis wrote it in 1930.

  Sounds like a book I'd like to read. I'll have to check with my library and see if they have it or can get it. So, you think bloggers may be reconnecting?

   Yes, I believe we've reconnected in some sort of group, maybe for no real reason, but the concept fascinates me. Diesel was obsessed with the "Titanic," and I keep getting "wagontrains." May be "crazy," but it makes great fiction.

Final Question: If you could change "one" solid fact of your life, what would it be?

    To have listened to my daughter and not gone to work the day of my accident. She begged me to stay home.

  She begged you to stay home because she "knew or felt" something?

    Yes, and my life would be different. My kids would not have had the loss of me for so long, yet, if I hadn't of had a "lifestop," I would not have reconnected with my spirituality, so, maybe it was for the best.

Ok, I lied, ... another question, "do you believe in life scripts?"

    I believe we choose the path and the people we need to grow with.

Then you believe "there's a reason for everything?"

    Ultimately.

One only has to look at "nature," to believe there's a reason for everything.

    Yes.

Well... Colo... the hour doth grow late, and I believe this interview has "reason" to be over now. Thanks, so much.

    Thank you, I've enjoyed it.

Lucy, thanks for allowing me to do this.  And thank you very much Colo!

LUCY

Thank you so much Ice for being such a great interviewer and asking intruguing questions.  And thank you Colo for such an honest peak into your life.  I know I have learned new things about you and so will the readers!  Great job, both of you!